ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Wannish

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Wannish is an adjective meaning (chiefly poetic) Quite wan or pale.

Meaning

(chiefly poetic) Quite wan or pale.

Example Sentences

Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire / Sprinkled with stars, like Ariadne's tiar: [...]
The moon turns the smoke into wannish clouds of white and yellow, which slowly rise, break, and disappear.
No tree in all the grove but has its charms, / Though each its hue peculiar; paler ſome, / And of a wanniſh grey; […]
Sheer slanting down the sky an opal light / Pierces the snow-blur's veil of wannish gray, / In iridescent sheen, tingeing the dazzling white / With amethystine, gold or beryl ray.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wanned, wearish, pallid, white, watery, peely-wally.

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