Wan

ahd-5
  • adjective. Unnaturally pale, as from physical or emotional distress.
  • adjective. Suggestive or indicative of weariness, illness, or unhappiness; melancholy.
  • intransitive verb. To become pale.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A wan tint or complexion; paleness.
  • noun. 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.
  • 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.
  • To render wan.
  • To grow or become wan.
  • An old preterit, of win.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality of being wan; wanness.
  • intransitive verb. To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
  • adjective. Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
  • imperative. Won.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of win.
  • adjective. Pale, sickly-looking.
  • adjective. Dim, faint.
  • adjective. Bland, uninterested.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
  • adjective. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness
  • adjective. abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
  • verb. become pale and sickly
  • noun. a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network
  • Word Usage
    "I have more dust in wan minute than iver I saw in all me life before."
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    Abidjan  Abron  Amman  Antoine  Aton  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ashen  bluish  dejected  dim  forlorn  
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    wanned  wanner  wannest  wanning  
    verb-form
    wanned  wanning  wans