paler
SayPAYL-erUS/ˈpeɪlɚ/UK/ˈpeɪlə/
- 1Comparative of pale.
By the end of winter her skin had grown paler than ever.
The dawn light was noticeably paler near the horizon than overhead.
Note
A comparative built the short way: pale takes the -er ending rather than more, as one-syllable adjectives usually do, and because it already ends in a silent e, only -r is added. It compares every adjective sense of pale, not just color, so a paler imitation is a fainter, feebler one. Keep it apart from the verb: a face pales, but a face grows paler.
paler is a form of pale
pale, adjective: Light in color, nearer to white than to a deep or vivid shade. Full entry
- Spelling
- pale → paler: add -r
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