1. (of a person or a person's skin)
• light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child.
• lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.:She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
2. of a low degree of chroma, saturation, or purity; approaching white or gray: pale yellow.
3. not bright or brilliant; dim: the pale moon.
4. faint or feeble; lacking vigor: a pale protest.

5. to become pale: to pale at the sight of blood.
6. to seem less important, remarkable, etc., especially when compared with something else: Platinum is so rare that even gold pales in comparison.

7. to make pale.

1. a stake or picket, as of a fence.
2. an enclosing or confining barrier; enclosure.
3. an enclosed area.
4. limits; bounds: outside the pale of his jurisdiction.
5. a district or region within designated bounds.
6. (initial capital letter)
• a district in eastern Ireland included in the Angevin Empire of King Henry II and his successors.
• the territories in the Russian Empire in which Jews were allowed to live.
7. an ordinary in the form of a broad vertical stripe at the center of an escutcheon.
8. a shore used inside to support the deck beams of a hull under construction.

9. to enclose with pales; fence.
10. to encircle or encompass.

11. beyond the limits of proper behavior, courtesy, protection, safety, etc.: Their public comments are certainly beyond the pale.

1. lacking brightness of colour; whitish
2. (of a colour) whitish; produced by a relatively small quantity of colouring agent
3. dim or wan
4. feeble
5. Southern African a euphemism for White

6. to make or become pale or paler; blanch
7. to lose superiority or importance (in comparison to)

1. a wooden post or strip used as an upright member in a fence
2. an enclosing barrier, esp a fence made of pales
3. an area enclosed by a pale
4. a sphere of activity within which certain restrictions are applied
5. an ordinary consisting of a vertical stripe, usually in the centre of a shield
6. outside the limits of social convention

7. to enclose with pales

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