n. A wan tint or complexion; paleness.n. The German name, sometimes used in English, of the dyestuff weld (not woad).Dark; black; gloomy: applied to the weather, to water, streams, pools, etc.Colorless; pallid; pale; sickly of hue.Sorrowful; sad.Frightful; awful; great.Synonyms Pallid, etc. (see pale), ashy, cadaverous.To render wan.To grow or become wan.An old preterit, of win.A prefix of Anglo-Saxon origin, frequent in Middle English, meaning ‘wanting, deficient, lacking,’ and used as a negative, like un-, with which it often inter changed.