Wan
[wɒn] or [wɑn]
Definition
(verb.) become pale and sickly.
(adj.) lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; 'a wan smile' .
Checker: Roderick--From WordNet
Definition
(imp.) Won.
(a.) Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
(n.) The quality of being wan; wanness.
(v. i.) To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
(-) of Win
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Pale, pallid, cadaverous, ashy, of a sickly hue.
v. n. Turn pale, grow pale.
Typist: Ruben
Definition
adj. faint: wanting colour: pale and sickly: languid: gloomy dark.—v.i. to become wan.—adv. Wan′ly.—n. Wan′ness.—adj. Wan′nish somewhat wan.
old pa.t. of win.
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Examples
- She had sunk into one of the golden thrones, and as I turned to her she greeted me with a wan smile. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- And that it was another was enough to make Mr. Thornton's pale grave face grow doubly wan and stern at Dixon's answer. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Far down the lake were fantastic pale strings of colour, like beads of wan fire, green and red and yellow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was little, lame, and pale; his large eyes shone somewhat languidly in a wan orbit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Why, dey wan't no 'count 't all. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Everything looked wan at that hour. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The age of iron is not yet supreme, For youth still throbs in the old veins of Mother Earth, wan and weary with sorrowful centuries. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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