Need another word that means the same as “wan”? Find 13 synonyms and 30 related words for “wan” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Wan” are: pale, pallid, sick, ashen, white, white as a sheet, grey, dim, faint, weak, feeble, watery, wishy-washy
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “wan” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| ashen | Anemic looking from illness or emotion- Mary W. Shelley. Eleanor s ashen face. |
| dim | Made dim or less bright. Their prospects for the future looked fairly dim. |
| faint | (of a hope or chance) possible but unlikely; slight. Damning with faint praise. |
| feeble | Lacking strength of character. Feeble efforts. |
| grey | Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War who wore grey uniforms. His face looked grey and drawn. |
| pale | Inferior or unimpressive. Pale blue eyes. |
| pallid | Lacking vigour or intensity; insipid. Pallid liberalism. |
| sick | (of a person) having abnormal or unnatural tendencies; perverted. Nursing very sick children. |
| watery | (of a person’s eyes) full of tears. Watery soil. |
| weak | Relating to or denoting the weakest of the known kinds of force between particles which acts only at distances less than about 10 cm is very much weaker than the electromagnetic and the strong interactions and conserves neither strangeness parity nor isospin. He had a weak stomach. |
| white | Restricted to whites only. In shining white armor. |
| white as a sheet | Glowing white with heat. |
| wishy-washy | Weak in willpower, courage or vitality. |
| ailing | In poor health. My poor ailing grandmother. |
| anemia | A deficiency of red blood cells. |
| anemic | Lacking vigor or energy. An anemic attempt to hit the baseball. |
| blanch | Make white or pale by extracting colour. I blanched the carrots for a couple of minutes before roasting them. |
| complexion | A combination that results from coupling or interlinking. A liberal political complexion. |
| dark | Of a person having dark skin hair or eyes. Dark eyes. |
| dim | Make dim or lusterless. The dim glow of the fire. |
| face | Cover the surface of something with a layer of a different material. The north face of the Eiger. |
| fading | Weakening in force or intensity. |
| flagging | A walk of flagstones. The flagging in the garden was quite imaginative. |
| fragility | Lack of physical strength. His emotional fragility. |
| hue | The attribute of a colour by virtue of which it is discernible as red, green, etc., and which is dependent on its dominant wavelength and independent of intensity or lightness. The water is the deepest hue of aquamarine. |
| ill | Ill is often used as a combining form in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner not well. Ill fitting clothes. |
| jaundice | Affect with or as if with jaundice. Jealousy had jaundiced his judgment. |
| limp | A tendency to limp a gait impeded by injury or stiffness. He felt his body go limp. |
| moonbeam | A ray of moonlight. |
| pale | Become pale in one s face from shock or fear. I paled at the thought of what she might say. |
| pallid | (of a person’s face) pale, typically because of poor health. His face with its wrinkled pallid complexion. |
| pallor | An unhealthy pale appearance. The deathlike pallor of his face. |
| pigmentation | Abnormal colouring of a person’s skin, typically resulting from disease. |
| powerless | Lacking power. Troops were powerless to stop last night s shooting. |
| sallow | Cause to become sallow. His skin was sallow and pitted. |
| sensitization | (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations. Too much silver nitrate would cause improper sensitization of the plates placed in it. |
| sick | People who are sick. Visiting the sick and the elderly. |
| swarthy | Naturally having skin of a dark color. Swarthy men with gleaming teeth. |
| tint | Dye someone s hair with a tint. A tint of glamour. |
| undermine | Destroy property or hinder normal operations. This could undermine years of hard work. |
| weak | Relating to or denoting the weakest of the known kinds of force between particles which acts only at distances less than about 10 cm is very much weaker than the electromagnetic and the strong interactions and conserves neither strangeness parity nor isospin. A weak plot. |
| white | Paint or turn something white. A white Christmas. |
| yellow | Yellow colour or pigment. The little yellow stain of treason. |
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