What is another word for palely?

Pronunciation: [pˈe͡ɪlli] (IPA)

Palely is an adverb that means in a pale or light-colored manner. Some synonyms for the word palely are faintly, wanly, delicately, lightly, weakly, feebly, and softly. These synonyms can be used to describe an object or a person that is lacking color or liveliness. For instance, a palely lit room can be described as softly lit, while a person who is palely looking can be referred to as fragile looking with a faint, delicate appearance. The use of these synonyms can help to provide the reader with a clearer understanding and a more descriptive image of what is being described.

What are the hypernyms for Palely?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Palely

In the dim light, his face showed palely, and he seemed much agitated.
"The Ghost Pirates"
William Hope Hodgson
The moon shone in the heaven more and more palely and in the meantime there appeared before them, creeping low, strange rosy clouds, entirely transparent, woven only from light.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Then the fire began to show in a dozen places at once, wriggling lizard-like through the dry, palely-gleaming grass.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard

Famous quotes with Palely

  • ...one straggles gracelessly through a wilderness of common sense. It is an experience for which the reader of modern criticism is unprepared: in that jungle through which one wanders, with its misshapen and extravagant and cannibalistic growths, bent double with fruit and tentacles, disquieting with their rank eccentric life, one comes surprisingly on something so palely healthy: a decorous plant, without thorns or flowers, rootless in the thin sand of the drawing room.
    Randall Jarrell
  • The murderer smiles palely in wine, Death's horror grips the sick. Excoriated and naked, the nun prays Before the Savior's agony on the cross.The mother sings quietly in sleep. Peacefully the child looks into the night With eyes that are completely truthful. In the whorehouse laughter rings.By candlelight down in the cellar hole The dead one paints with white hand A grinning silence on the wall. The sleeper whispers still.
    Georg Trakl
  • O, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing.
    John Keats

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