pastel
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈpæstəl/
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pastel
- The nursery was decorated in soft pastel colors, creating a calm atmosphere for the babies.
- pastel colors
I mean a lilac purple or like a pastel yellow because it's Easter.
- I mean a lilac purple or like a pastel yellow because it's Easter.
- And then in our bedroom we're thinking of doing a very pastel powder blue.
- They're like an off white in different pastel shades.
- It's actually perfect for me because I love the pastel look.
- It's like a such a nice like soft kind of pastel bright neon coral.
- But it's like a little like pastel rainbow tint.
Examples
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Absolutely beautiful color, very soft pastel kind of creams and lavender blue.
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The old city is a maze of twisting streets and Arab-style houses, their pastel walls weathered to a rainbow of soft colors.
Academic text (2003) -
It's actually perfect for me because I love the pastel look.
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It's a little too pastel for my taste.
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This is Kane, and it's like a pastel yellow.
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This is a nice summer pastel color which you don't wear enough of.
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The walls were a soft, pastel aquamarine.
Fiction book (2000) -
All were gorgeous; pastel colors flowing over a cream base as the light shifted.
Fiction book (2000) -
Maybe it was the weather—winter had lifted, the sun was bright, the sky was a pastel blue.
Fiction book (1992) -
We sped past row after row of old Victorians, their pastel colors blending at the edges.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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1.0
Has very light color and often looks sick or afraid
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2.4
Not dark in color, often pale like white
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3.7
Having light, soft colors like pale pink or blue
Having a light color that is not bright
A light color that is not strong
Antonyms
Compounds
How Pale
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pastel comes from a French word pastel that meant 'paste', because artists mixed color into a soft paste to make gentle pigments, so a pastel color is pale and delicate.