wannish
wannish adjective: quite wan or pale.
Adjective
wannish (comparative more wannish, superlative most wannish)
- Quite wan or pale.
- No tree in all the grove but has its charms, / Though each its hue peculiar; paler ſome, / And of a wanniſh grey; […]1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 17
- Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire / Sprinkled with stars, like Ariadne's tiar: [...]1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 6
Examples of wannish in a sentence
- The moon turns the smoke into wannish clouds of white and yellow, which slowly rise, break, and disappear.1890, Hezekiah Butterworth, The Log Schoolhouse on the Columbia: A Tale of the Pioneers of the Great Northwest:
- Sheer slanting down the sky an opal light / Pierces the snow-blur's veil of wannish gray, / In iridescent sheen, tingeing the dazzling white / With amethystine, gold or beryl ray.1900, Leigh Gordon Giltner, The Path of Dreams:
- As the time passed, they glowed softly, in a wannish white, to the puzzlement of all except Gray, who knew, somehow, that this was the color of unconscious angels.2009, G[eorge] F[ranklin] Skipworth, “The Ruse”, in Fire and Iceland (Fables of the Carpailtin Campfire; 2), Portland, Ore.: Rosslare...
Forms of wannish
| comparative | more wannish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most wannish |
Origin of wannish
From Middle English wannysche, wannyssh; equivalent to wan + -ish.
Questions about wannish
- What does wannish mean?
- Wannish means quite wan or pale.
- How do you use wannish in a sentence?
- The moon turns the smoke into wannish clouds of white and yellow, which slowly rise, break, and disappear.
- What part of speech is wannish?
- Wannish is an adjective.
Words near wannish in the dictionary
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