Wan

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Unnaturally pale, as from physical or emotional distress.
  • adj. Suggestive or indicative of weariness, illness, or unhappiness; melancholy: a wan expression.
  • verb-intransitive. To become pale.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Pale, sickly-looking.
  • adj. Dim, faint.
  • adj. Bland, uninterested.
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of win.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imperative. Won.
  • adj. Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
  • n. The quality of being wan; wanness.
  • verb-intransitive. To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
  • adj. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness
  • adj. abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
  • v. become pale and sickly
  • n. a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network
  • Equivalent
    weak    unanimated    colorless    colourless   
    Verb Form
    wanned    wanning    wans   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    wanner    wanning    wanned    wannest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    won    pale    pallid    wanness   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abidjan    Abron    Amman    Antoine    Aton    Azerbaijan    Bataan    Bhutan    Bon    Bonn   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    haggard    pallid    sickly    pale    ghastly    gaunt    livid    ghostly    dim    bluish