as in pale
lacking intensity of color
a pastel blue to go with the pale pink walls
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Recent Examples of pastel
Claire Fahy, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
On one of the three pieces, it is executed in the grand feu enamel technique using pastel shades; on another, the depiction is made via guilloché and grand feu enamel.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2025
Catharine Malzahn, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2025
The baby blue, pink, lavender and mint green pastel bags are part of the store’s latest spring drop.
—Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Residents across a broad stretch of the Northeast woke up on Saturday to snow blanketing backyards and frosting trees, just as the pastel colors of Easter promised that spring was near.
—Claire Fahy, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
On one of the three pieces, it is executed in the grand feu enamel technique using pastel shades; on another, the depiction is made via guilloché and grand feu enamel.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
While the season is often filled with soft pastels (hi, lavender milk nails) and shimmery nudes, some celebs have decided to go in a different direction this season.
—Catharine Malzahn, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2025
The baby blue, pink, lavender and mint green pastel bags are part of the store’s latest spring drop.
—Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastel
Adjective
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Gachot fills them with springtime blooms like garden tulips, cherry blossoms, poppies, daffodils, and pale pink ranunculus.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
18 Apr. 2025
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The moisturizer itself is a creamy, dreamy texture with a pale pink color and subtle rose scent.—
Catherine Santino,
People.com,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In his memory, his family and Groveland Gallery are mounting an exhibition of Murray’s new watercolor paintings, most of which are inspired by the Boundary Waters.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
6 Apr. 2025
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Kids painting class: Kids can learn how to paint with watercolors at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 6 at the Poway Library, 13137 Poway Road.—
Pomerado News,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Like Napoleon’s Uncle Rico, who dwells on his long-ago high-school-football days, Garrett is living in the faded aura of past glory: in his case, a 1989 video-game championship.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2025
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As thousands of migrants cycled through its faded lobby, the Roosevelt turned into a lightning rod in the country’s immigration debate: both as a reminder of the depth of the crisis and as shorthand for critics opposed to the expenditure of taxpayer money on migrants.—
Luis Ferré-Sadurní,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The eighty-one-year-old Crumb, dressed in a long dark coat and his trademark fedora and Coke-bottle glasses, looked over his drawings as if trying to place old acquaintances at a party.—
Bruce Handy,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Walz, who has worked many years as a special-education teacher, infuses his drawings with energy, with Theo free falling, sometimes upside down, in a palette of grays and maroons.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart while holding a light pair of dumbbells.—
Matt Parrott,
Arkansas Online,
20 Apr. 2025
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These will look spectacular with a light blue denim set and a light turtleneck to match the footwear.—
Renata Joffre,
Glamour,
19 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Every aspect of each design, from sketching to gouache rendering to fabrication, is a product of the human hand.—
Kyle Roderick,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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From a medieval English baptismal font with its original stucco intact (Blumka Gallery, D7) to a strangely jubilant gouache of a volcanic eruption in 1830 (Hill-Stone, D3), the fair still leans on museum-grade objects that boast enough oddity to beckon the wallets of collectors.—
Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The most monumental pieces, simply called the Ten Largest, were dramatic tempera pigment works on paper more than ten feet tall and had been completed in a frenzied nine-week period in 1907.—
Jay Cheshes,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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In egg tempera and gold leaf on wood, Santiago with an Apostolic Man shows a figure at right-hand staring at the viewer.—
John Oseid,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The intraocular lenses are made of silicone, acrylic, or other plastics and are coated in material to protect the eyes from the sun's ultraviolet rays.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
11 Apr. 2025
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Bring your own artwork and supplies (acrylic, oil, or watercolor) to work with Alex and fellow artists.—
Kris Slugg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Pastel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastel. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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