Empty and Pale

Empty

Empty adjective - Lacking contents that could or should be present.

Pale and empty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pale" instead an adjective "Empty".

Nearby Words: emptiness, emptying, emptily

Pale

Pale adjective - Lacking intensity of color.

Empty and pale are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Empty" instead an adjective "Pale".

Nearby Words: paled, paleness, palish, palely

Common collocations

bag empty bag pale bag

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Might and Magic Nothing Is Scarier: In Might and Magic VIII, the Plane of Air is just pale blue, empty void during the day, and a black, empty void at night.
  • In case you learnt any of the above Verbal Tic from TV Tropes because you mistook it for a Running Gag, empty a barrel, set it on fire and dance around it in the pale moonlight.
  • Phantasmat 5: Behind the Mask has Thomas, who wears a black Victorian boy's outfit, has a pale complexion and empty black eyes and chants morbid rhymes in monotone.
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Pale and Empty. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/empty/pale
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