| Main Entry: | pale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light in color or effect |
Synonyms: |
anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, bloodless, cadaverous, colorless, deathlike, dim, doughy, dull, faded, faint, feeble, ghastly, gray, haggard, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, insubstantial, livid, lurid, pallid, pasty, poor, sallow, sick, sickly, spectral, thin, unsubstantial, wan, washed-out, waxen, waxlike, weak, white, whitish |
| Notes: | a pail is a bucket while pale means whitish in complexion or very light colored |
Antonyms: |
bright, colorful, glowing, radiant |
| Main Entry: | ashen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gray |
Synonyms: |
anemic, blanched, cadaverous, colorless, ghastly, gray, leaden, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan, white |
| Main Entry: | blank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clear |
Synonyms: |
bare, barren, clean, empty, fresh, new, pale, plain, spotless, uncompleted, unfilled, unmarked, untouched, unused, vacant, vacuous, virgin, virginal, void, white |
Antonyms: |
filled, full, habited, occupied |
| Main Entry: | blond/blonde |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having light-colored hair |
Synonyms: |
albino, auricomous, bleached, champagne, fair, fair-haired, flaxen, golden-haired, light, pale, pearly, platinum, sallow, sandy-haired, snowy, straw, strawberry, towheaded, washed-out, yellow-haired |
Antonyms: |
brunet, brunette |
| Main Entry: | colorless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without hue |
Synonyms: |
achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, cadaverous, doughy, drab, dull, faded, flat, ghastly, livid, lurid, neutral, pale, sickly, uncolored, wan, washed out, waxen, white |
Antonyms: |
brilliant, colored, colorful, motley, rich, stimulating, vibrant, vivid |
| Main Entry: | deathly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suggesting end of life |
Synonyms: |
appalling, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, defunctive, dreadful, gaunt, ghastly, grim, gruesome, haggard, horrible, macabre, pale, pallid, wan, wasted |
| Notes: | deadly means causing or capable of causing death while deathly means having the physical appearance of death |
Antonyms: |
animated, beginning, blooming, blossoming, lively |
| Main Entry: | delicate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dainty, weak |
Synonyms: |
aerial, balmy, breakable, choice, delectable, delicious, delightful, elegant, ethereal, exquisite, faint, filmy, fine, fine-grained, finespun, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, gauzy, gentle, gossamery, graceful, hairline, mild, muted, nice, pale, pastel, rare, recherché, select, shatterable, shattery, slight, soft, subdued, subtle, superior, tender |
Antonyms: |
coarse, harsh, heavy, indelicate, inelegant, robust, rough, strong |
| Main Entry: | dim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | darkish |
Synonyms: |
blah, bleary, blurred, caliginous, cloudy, dark, dingy, dreary, dull, dusk, dusky, faded, faint, flat, fuzzy, gloomy, gray, ill-defined, indistinct, lackluster, lightless, mat, monotone, monotonous, murky, muted, obscured, opaque, overcast, pale, poorly lit, shadowy, sullied, tarnished, tenebrous, unclear, unilluminated, vague, weak |
Antonyms: |
bright, brilliant, clear, distinct, light |
| Main Entry: | faded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleached; used |
Synonyms: |
achromatic, ashen, bedraggled, dim, dingy, discolored, dull, etiolated, indistinct, lackluster, lusterless, murky, not shiny, pale, pallid, run-down, seedy, shabby, shopworn, tacky, tattered, threadbare, tired, wan, washed out, wasted, worn |
Antonyms: |
brightened, colored, strengthened |
| Main Entry: | faint |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having little effect on senses |
Synonyms: |
aside, bated, bland, bleached, blurred, breathless, deadened, deep, delicate, dim, distant, dull, dusty, faded, faltering, far-off, feeble, gentle, hazy, hoarse, hushed, ill-defined, imperceptible, inaudible, indistinct, lenient, light, low, low-pitched, mild, moderate, muffled, murmuring, muted, muttering, obscure, out of earshot, padded, pale, piano, quiet, remote, shadowy, slight, smooth, soft, softened, soothing, stifled, subdued, tenuous, thin, unclear, vague, wan, weak, whispered |
Antonyms: |
clear, distinct, heavy, loud, strong |