<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>(Of a person or a person's skin) light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child.</li><li>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.</li><li>Of a low degree of chroma, saturation, or purity; approaching white or gray: pale yellow.</li><li>Not bright or brilliant; dim: the pale moon.</li><li>Faint or feeble; lacking vigor: a pale protest.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used without object) paled, pal·ing. To become pale: to pale at the sight of blood.</li><li>(Synonyms) fade, whiten, blench, blanch.</li><li>(Antonyms) deepen.</li><li>To seem less important, remarkable, etc., especially when compared with something else: Platinum is so rare that even gold pales in comparison.</li><li>(Used with object) to make pale.</li></ul>