Wan

Quick meaning: Wan is an adjective meaning Pale, sickly-looking.

Meaning

Pale, sickly-looking.

More Meanings

1. Dim, faint.
2. Bland, uninterested.
3. The quality of being wan; wanness.
4. Pronunciation spelling of one, representing Ireland and Glasgow English.
5. (Ireland) A girl or woman.
6. (obsolete) simple past of win.

Example Sentences

Big fair wan lovely pale-freckled Kathleen with that buoyant bust gave kindly smiles but mostly she was silent.

She looked wan and worried, and then finally she was not in court one day, and later [...] he learned that she was confined to her room with a bad cold.

Whome when his Lady ſaw, to him ſhe ran / With haſty ioy : to ſee him made her glad, / And ſad to view his viſage pale and wan, / Who earſt in flowres of freſhest youth was clad.

Instead, you wiped off the red lipstick with wadded-up toilet paper and forced a smile, leaving the locker room with a pale, cotton candy-colored lipstick that made you look wan and parched instead.

Word Forms

• wanner
• wannest
• wans

Synonyms for wan

Depending on context, synonyms include ashen, pasty, ashen-faced, ashy, blake, blanched.

Antonyms for wan

Common opposites include colorful, coloury, kaleidoscopic, many-coloured, motley, multichromatic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pallid, weak, pale, colourless, colorless, sallow.

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