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Palely

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Adverb

1. dimly, palely, pallidly

in a manner lacking interest or vitality

Example Sentences:
'a palely entertaining show'

2. palely

in a pale manner; without physical or emotional color

Example Sentences:
'his wife, always palely appealing'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Palely

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adjective
1. 
lacking brightness of colour; whitish
pale morning light
2. 
(of a colour) whitish; produced by a relatively small quantity of colouring agent
3. 
dim or wan
the pale stars
4. 
feeble
a pale effort
5. South Africa a euphemism for White
verb
6. 
to make or become pale or paler; blanch
7. (intransitive; often foll by before)
to lose superiority or importance (in comparison to)
her beauty paled before that of her hostess
noun
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. heraldry
an ordinary consisting of a vertical stripe, usually in the centre of a shield
6.  beyond the pale
verb
7. (transitive)
to enclose with pales

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Palely

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈpaler or ˈpalest
1. 
of a whitish or colorless complexion; pallid; wan
2. 
lacking intensity or brilliance
said of color, light, etc.; faint; dim
3. 
feeble; weak
a pale imitation
verb intransitiveWord forms: paled or ˈpaling
4. 
to become pale
5. 
to seem weaker or less important
verb transitive
6. 
to make pale
noun
1. 
a narrow, upright, pointed stake used in fences; picket
2. 
a fence; enclosure; boundary; restriction
now chiefly figurative
outside the pale of the law, beyond the pale (of respectability)
3. 
a territory or district enclosed within bounds
4.  Botany
a chaffy bract or scale; esp., a bract at the base of a floret of a composite flower
5.  Heraldry
a vertical band forming the middle third of a shield

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Palely

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adj. pal·er, pal·est
1. Whitish in complexion; pallid.
2.
a. Of a low intensity of color; light.
b. Having high lightness and low saturation.
3. Of a low intensity of light; dim or faint: "a late afternoon sun coming through the el tracks and falling in pale oblongs on the cracked, empty sidewalks" (Jimmy Breslin).
4. Feeble; weak: a pale rendition of the aria.
v. paled, pal·ing, pales
v.tr.
To cause to turn pale.
v.intr.
1. To become pale; blanch: paled with fright.
2. To decrease in relative importance.

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