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Definition of pale : 1. A cheese scoop.
2. A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.
3. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
4. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; - often used figuratively.
5. A stripe or band, as on a garment.
6. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
7. One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
8. Paleness; pallor.
9. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
10. To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
11. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
12. To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
13. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.

Synonyms:

spotter, grim, impoverished, doughy, ashy, fair, brighten, bluish, pinched, avocado, worse, indistinct, colors, anemic, ill, gray, scout, baby-blue, soft, mellow, sick, gruesome, worst of all, color, misty, drain, nebulous, gauzy, foggy, burn, picket, change, blanch, pasty, lighten, alabaster, parboil, light-colored, unclear, bleed, blurry, light, lurid, fade, queasy, black, thin, disgusted, blacken, shadowy, bleach, hazy, drawn, mad, obscure, for the worse, dulled, dim, azure, flood, blear, sentry, paled, ivory, ghastly, sickish, colourless, washed-out, blanched, blue, waterish, not amount to much/a great deal, wane, demented, fed up, sentinel, opaque, take a back seat, strong, drained, color up, macabre, etiolate, blush, indefinite, retrogressive, undetermined, washy, livid, nauseated, deepen, inferior, sick of, vague, lookout man, mean nothing, crazy, spectral, green, grisly, brainsick, creamy, chalky, deathlike, amethyst, unbalanced, piquet, lookout, murky, tired of, disturbed, (as) white as a sheet, blench, nauseous, beige, worst, watery, weaken, bleary, fade into insignificance, flush, amber, make no/little difference, faint, flame, waxen, feeble, extraordinary, unhinged, degenerate, lessen, undefined, watch, weak, ghostly, mealy, peaked, fuzzy, pastel, indistinguishable

death-like, sickly, ashen, emaciated, gaunt, cadaverous, wan, corpse-like, sallow, haggard, pallid, bloodless

dull, bleached, toneless, hueless, neutral, lackluster, colorless, lusterless, faded, achromatic, white

Usage examples:

• There was a knock at the door, and Mrs. Livingstone herself looked in, pale, anxious, and expectant. - "'Lena Rivers", Mary J. Holmes.
• How pale and sweet Ruth looked to- day! - "The Rebel of the School", Mrs. L. T. Meade.
• She had been pale. - "Kent Knowles: Quahaug", Joseph C. Lincoln.