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pal

noun

1 pal

A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.

synonyms: brother, buddy, chum, crony, sidekick.

Roget 711: auxiliary; recruit; assistant; adjuvant, adjutant; ayudante, coaid; adjunct; help, helper, help mate, helping hand; midwife; colleague, ... show more

Roget 890: friend, friend of one's bosom; alter ego; best friend, bosom friend, soulmate, fast friend; amicus [Lat.]; usque ad aras [Lat.]; fidus Achates [Lat.]; persona grata.    acquaintance, neighbor, next-door neighbor, ... show more

Dutch: makker, maatje, maat, partner
Polish: ziom, ziomal

verb

1 pal

Become friends; act friendly towards.

synonyms: chum up, pal up.


Moby thesaurus: ace, amigo, associate, associate with, assort with, bedfellow, bedmate, bosom buddy, buddy, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, camarade, chamberfellow, chum, chum together, chum with, classmate, clique, clique with ... show more.

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pale

noun

1 pale

A wooden strip forming part of a fence.

synonym: picket.

Roget 233: limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation; termination, terminus; ... show more

Roget 232: inclosure, envelope; case etc. (receptacle) 191; wrapper; girdle etc. 230.    pen, fold; pen fold, in fold, ... show more

Roget 181: region, sphere, ground, soil, area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; ... show more

Polish: pal

verb

1 pale

Turn pale, as if in fear.

synonyms: blanch, blench.

Roget 429: lose color etc. 428; fade, fly, go; become colorless etc. adj.; turn pale, pale.    deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, ... show more

Roget 422: be dim, grow dim etc. adj.; flicker, twinkle, glimmer; loom, lower; fade; pale, pale its ineffectual fire [Hamlet]. ... show more

Dutch: verbleken, verschieten

adjective

1 pale

Very light colored; highly diluted with white.

Roget 422: dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421.    faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty etc. ... show more

Roget 860: fearing etc. v.; frightened etc. v.; in fear, in a fright etc. n.; haunted with the fear of etc. n.; afeard.    ... show more

Polish: blady

2 pale

of light Lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble:
— The pale light of a half moon.
— A pale sun.
— The late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street.
— The pale (or wan) stars.

synonyms: pallid, sick, wan.

Roget 429: uncolored etc. (color) etc. 428; colorless, achromatic, aplanatic; etiolate, etiolated; hueless, pale, pallid; palefaced, ... show more

3 pale

Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness:
— A pale rendition of the aria.
— Pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender.

synonym: pallid.

4 pale

Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress.

synonyms: pallid, wan.

Polish: blady

5 pale

Not full or rich.


Moby thesaurus: abate, abnormal, achievement, achromatic, achromatize, achromic, alabaster, alabastrine, albescent, alerion, ambit, anathema, anemic, animal charge, annulet, arena, argent, arid, armorial bearings, armory ... show more.

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