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wan

adjective

1 she looked so wan and frail:

pale, pallid, ashen, white, white as a sheet, grey;

anaemic, jaundiced, colourless, bloodless, waxen, chalky, milky, pasty, pasty-faced, whey-faced, peaky, sickly, tired-looking, washed out, sallow, drained, drawn, sapped, ghostly, deathly, deathlike, bleached;

rare etiolated.

▷antonyms flushed, ruddy.

2 the wan light of the moon:

dim, faint, weak, feeble, pale, watery, wishy-washy.

▷antonyms bright.

wan Oxford Dictionary of English