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adj
Pale, sickly-looking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: ashen, pasty, ashen-faced, ashy, blake, blanched, bleak, bloodless, chalky, exsanguious, ghastly, grey, livid, pale, pallid, sallow, wan, washed out, white, whey-faced
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Dim, faint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: dull, dun, leaden, uncolorful, bland, colourless, dim, dingy, faint, lackluster, muddy, sad, sober, unholiday, wan
Antonyms: colorful, colorific, coloury, aurora-colored (US) / aurora-coloured, colorful (US) / colourful, discolored [⇒ thesaurus] (US, obsolete) / discoloured, kaleidoscopic, many-coloured, motley, multichromatic, multicolor (US) / multicolour, multicolored (US) / multicoloured, multicolorous, multihued, particolored (US) / particoloured, polychromate, polychromatic, polychromed, polyhued, prismatic, rainbow, rainbow-colored (US) / rainbow-coloured, tissued, variegated
adj
Bland, uninterested.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: insipid, lackluster, banal, basic, beat, blah, commonplace, bland, boring, cold, colourless, corny, drab, stuffy, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, flat, heavy going, ho-hum, humdrum, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, monotonous, mundane, no fun at parties, plain, plodding, prosaic, prosy, pedantic, pedestrian, static, straightforward, snoozeworthy, soporific, tedious, uncool, wan, weaksauce, wooden, uninteresting, stodgy, vapid, vanilla
Antonyms: none provided
name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The quality of being wan; wanness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: achromatism, decolouration, paleness, pallidity, pallor
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Pronunciation spelling of one, representing Ireland and Glasgow English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A girl or woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: lass, maid, babe, bint, bird, cake, chick, colleen, cutty, damoiselle, damsel, elrig, frail, gal, gel, girl, girlie, girly, grill, hottie, lassie, little girl, maggie, maid child, maiden, minoress, miss, missy, moggy, poppet, pucelle, puss, quean, tart, wan, wench, woman child, baggage, bim, bitch, blone, broad, covess, dame, donna, feme, femme, femoid, frau, frow, gash, gentlelady, ginch, hen, ho, huwoman, lady, maness, mort, mulier, placket, pussy, queen, she, sheila, skirt, squaw, thot, tía, twist, vaginoid, wife, woman, wommon, womon, womxn, womyn, wimmin
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Acronym of wide area network.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, networking, physical-sciences, sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
simple past of win.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, obsolete, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: pale, pallid
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: pale, pallid, sick
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: wide area network
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: computer network
verb
become pale and sickly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sicken, come down
History
From Middle English wan, wanne (“grey, leaden; pale grey, ashen; blue-black (like a bruise); dim, faint; dark, gloomy”), from Old English wann (“dark, dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *wannaz (“dark, swart”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wann, wonn (“dark”).
Eye dialect spelling of one. Sense 2 (“girl or woman”) possibly as a result of the phrase your wan as a counterpart to your man.
An inflected form.
Across languages
63 source translations are retained for this English entry.
