wanner

Adjective

wan (comparative wanner, superlative wannest)

1. Pale, sickly-looking.
   • Whome when his Lady ſaw, to him ſhe ran / With haſty ioy : to ſee him made her glad, / And ſad to view his viſage pale and wan, / Who earſt in flowres of freſhest youth was clad.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42, page 116

   Synonyms:

   ashen, pasty, ashen-faced, ashy, blake, blanched, bleak, bloodless, chalky, exsanguious

2. Dim, faint.
   • ’Twas so far away, that evil day when I prayed the Prince of Gloom / For the savage strength and the sullen length of life to work his doom. / Nor sign nor word had I seen or heard, and it happed so long ago; / My youth was gone and my memory wan, and I willed it even so.1909, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Ballad of One-eyed Mike”, in Ballads of a Cheechako, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 52

   Synonyms:

   dull, dun, leaden, uncolorful, bland, colourless, dim, dingy, faint, lackluster

   Antonyms:

   colorful, colorific, coloury, aurora-colored (US) / aurora-coloured, colorful (US) / colourful, discolored [⇒ thesaurus] (US, obsolete) / discoloured, kaleidoscopic, many-coloured, motley

3. Bland, uninterested.
   • A wan expression

   Synonyms:

   insipid, lackluster, banal, basic, mindless, beat, blah, commonplace, bland, boring

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