wan

Plural: wans

Noun

• a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network
• The quality of being wan; wanness.
• Pronunciation spelling of one, representing Ireland English.
• A girl or woman.

Verb

Verb Forms: wanned, wanning, wans

• To become unnaturally pale or faint in color.
• become pale and sickly
• simple past of win.

Adjective Satellite

• (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
  • "the pale (or wan) stars"
  • "the wan light of dawn"
• abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
  • "her wan face suddenly flushed"
• lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness
  • "a wan smile"

Adj

• Pale, sickly-looking.
• Dim, faint.
• Bland, uninterested.

Adjective

• Unnaturally pale, typically due to illness or fatigue.

Examples

• A wan expression
• His face was wan after staying up all night strategizing Scrabble plays.
• The Scrabble player’s face began to wan as their opponent played a seven-letter word.

Synonyms

pale, pallid, sick, wide area network, achromatism, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, babe, baggage, banal, beat, bim, bint, bird, bitch, blah, blake, blanched, bland, bleak, blone, bloodless, boring, broad, cake, chalky, chick, cold, colleen, colourless, covess, cutty, dame, damoiselle, damsel, decolouration, dim, dingy, donna, drab, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, dun, elrig, exsanguious, faint, feme, femme, femoid, flat, frail, frau, frow, gal, gel, gentlelady, ghastly, ginch, girl, girlie, girly, grey, grill, hen, ho, ho-hum, hottie, humdrum, huwoman, insipid, lackluster, lady, lame, languid, lass, lassie, leaden, lifeless, little girl, livid, longsome, maggie, maid, maid child, maiden, maness, minoress, miss, missy, moggy, monotonous, mort, muddy, mulier, mundane, no fun at parties, paleness, pallidity, pallor, pasty, pedantic, pedestrian, placket, plain, plodding, poppet, prosaic, prosy, pucelle, puss, pussy, quean, queen, sad, sallow, she, sheila, skirt, snoozeworthy, sober, soporific, squaw, static, stodgy, straightforward, tart, tedious, thot, twist, tía, uncolorful, uncool, unholiday, uninteresting, vaginoid, vanilla, vapid, wan, washed out, weaksauce, wench, whey-faced, white, wife, wimmin, woman, woman child, wommon, womon, womxn, womyn, wooden

Antonyms

Having one color:, achromatic, colorful, colorific, colorless, coloury, dim, monochromatic, monochrome, monocolor, monocoloured, self-coloured, unicolor, unicolored

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