wanly
wanly adverb: in a wan or pale manner.
Adverb
wanly (comparative more wanly, superlative most wanly)
- In a wan or pale manner.
- She has the faded look of a St. James's Street illumination, as it may be seen of an early morning, when half the lamps are out, and the others are blinking wanly, as if they were about to vanish like ghosts before the dawn.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 48, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
- Having turned about, he kept his horse to a walk, and at this gait the sleighbells tinkled but intermittently. Gleaming wanly through the whitish vapour that kept rising from the trotter’s body and flanks, they were like tiny fog-bells, and made the only sounds in a great winter silence.1918, Booth Tarkington, chapter 7, in The Magnificent Ambersons
wanly meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
wanly in Urdu
- آزردگی سے, بےزاری سے, ضعیفی سے
wanly in Malayalam
- വിളർത്ത ഭാവത്തിൽ, പ്രകാശം കുറഞ്ഞ്, തളർന്ന്
Forms of wanly
| comparative | more wanly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most wanly |
Origin of wanly
From wan + -ly.
Questions about wanly
- What does wanly mean?
- Wanly means in a wan or pale manner.
- What is wanly in Urdu?
- Wanly in Urdu is آزردگی سے, بےزاری سے, ضعیفی سے. See Wanly meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is wanly?
- Wanly is an adverb.
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