OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 7218

pale

/peɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pálido
Light in color.
I have pale yellow wallpaper.
She had pale skin because she didn't get much sunlight.
nixte (nishte) • payulo • puspo • pálido
Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.
Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she s…
mal • malo • triste
Feeble, faint.
He is but a pale shadow of his former self.
The son's clumsy paintings are a pale imitation of his father's.
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 7220

pale

/peɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
palo
A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross…
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 7219

pale

/peɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
empalidecer • palidecer
To become insignificant.
(Although the conditions are rather different, the generosity of the offer certainly pales by comparison with the "Eurailpass" now available to tourists from North and South Americ…
Its financing pales next to the tens of billions that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will have at its disposal, especially with the coming infusion of some $3 billion a year…