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.
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