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pastel

pastel

38 3.7
A soft, pale color like light pink or blue
  • noun
  • /ˈpæstəl/
translation icon : color pastel
  • The Boyhood Home is a pastel ranch on a street of pastel ranches.
  • pastel color
  • pastels and watercolors
  • acrylics and pastels

Like how do I view things like pastels versus brights versus neons?

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Examples

  • It is light pastel pink with with this light blue.

  • The new flowers in the garden are largely pastels, which are favored by the first lady.

  • It's a soft green, maybe like a pastel green, but they just call it green.

  • This next top here is this beautiful pastel yellow shirt.

  • You're wearing a cute little pastel dress or little suit.

  • They're all kind of like, pastel, very soft colors.

  • This is Princess, which is a beautiful like light pastel lavender color.

  • Get ourselves a nice house, granite countertops, pastel walls.

  • Some of the buildings were colored in washed pastels; others were in solemn stone.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • The artist chose a beautiful pastel blue for the sky in her painting.

Antonyms

1.0

With little or no light and not bright

23 3.0

Very bright and clear in color and easy to notice

Compounds

Having light, soft colors like pale pink or blue

How Pale

washed-out
4 4.4
pastel
38 3.7
light-colored
  • US
10 2.4

Surface Forms

pastel singular
pastels plural

Etymology

Pastel originally named the soft sticks artists made by pressing pigment into a soft paste, and the light, gentle shades from these sticks became known as pastel colors.