Synonyms for wan
- adjective
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Pale — pale, sickly-looking
pale, pallid, ghastly, haggard, sickly, white, ashen, ashy, livid, bloodless, sallow, sick, washed-out, grey UK, gray US, pasty, whey-faced, lurid, blanched, cadaverous, faded
2. Languid — bland, uninterested
languid, dull, bland, colorless US, colourless UK, drab, lifeless, insipid, flat, lackluster US, lack-lustre UK, lacklustre UK, fade, uninteresting, dreary, sluggish, vapid, prosaic, prosy
Noun
Other
achromatism, decolouration UK, decoloration US
Definitions
- adj. 1
Pale, sickly-looking.
- adj. 2
Dim, faint.
- n. 1
A girl or woman.
- n. 2
The quality of being wan; wanness.
Related words
- Word family
- wanness
- Phrases
- green and wan
Forms
- Plural
- wans → lasses, maids, pallors, palenesses…
Example sentences
- pale I said to her, "You look pale. Are you all right?"
- sickly Since childhood, Boldi has been a very sickly boy.
- haggard Lone lions, alas, always end up being hunted and haggard.
- pallid The pallid cypresses seemed to twist in febrile pain.
- insipid Water tastes insipid after it has been boiled.
By length
- 3 letters
- dim1, dun1
- 4 letters
- sick1, flat1, weak1, grey1, gray1, pale1, dull1, fade1, maid1, lass1, drab1, ashy2
- 5 letters
- white1, faint1, faded2, muddy2, weary2, bland1, livid2, pasty, dingy2, lurid2, ashen2, vapid2, mealy2, prosy
- 6 letters
- dreary2, sickly2, pallid2, leaden2, sallow, pallor
- 7 letters
- ghastly2, haggard2, insipid3, prosaic3, languid2
- 8 letters
- lifeless2, sluggish2, blanched, paleness
- 9 letters
- colorless3, bloodless2, unholiday, pallidity
- 10 letters
- lackluster3, colourless, lacklustre, cadaverous, uncolorful
- 11 letters
- achromatism
- 12 letters
- decoloration
- 13 letters
- uninteresting4, decolouration
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ashy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- blême