Palest
adj, verb ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 second-person singular simple present indicative of pale archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
"“[…] Who’s over me? Truth hath no confines. Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends’ glarings is a doltish stare! So, so; thou reddenest and palest; my heat has melted thee to anger-glow. But look ye, Starbuck, what is said in heat, that thing unsays itself.[…]”"
- 1 superlative form of pale: most pale form-of, superlative
"So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams."
Example
More examples"The palest ink is better than the best memory."
Etymology
pale + -est
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