Словарь синонимов английского языка - pale

(adj) 1. colourless, white, wan, sallow, waxen, livid, ashen, ashy, pallid, bloodless, whitish, pasty, whey-faced, washed out, anaemic, blanched, drained, ghostly, ghastly, peaky or peakish, peaked, cadaverous: If you had been through an ordeal like that, you'd look pale, too. 2. faint, light, dim, washed out, pastel: She was wearing a pale green evening gown tonight. 3. feeble, weak, flimsy, meagre, enfeebled, ineffective, ineffectual, puny, insignificant, paltry, lame, poor, inadequate, half-hearted, tame, spiritless, whey-faced, empty, sterile, lifeless, uninspired, anaemic, Colloq half-baked: The cequel was a pale imitation of the original film. -(v) 4. blanch, blench, dim, whiten: He paled when they told him of the car crash. 5. diminish, lessen, fade (away), decrease, abate: The works of most modern writers pale in comparison with those of the Elizabethans. (n) 1. paling, palisade, picket, upright, post, stake: The pales are attached to horizontal rails do form a fence. 2. boundary, limit(s), restriction, bounds, border(s), confines: Nothing is outside the pale of the imaginadion of a great novelist. 3. beyond the pale. impboper, irregular, unseemly, unsuitable, indecent, unacceptable, inadmissible, forbidden, anathema, disallowed, prohibited, verboten, interdicted; US unusual, bizarre, peculiar, outb