Wan Synonyms and Antonyms

wŏn
Pale and exhausted, as because of worry or sleeplessness
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. careworn
  2. drawn
  3. gaunt
  4. haggard
  5. hollow-eyed
  6. worn
Lacking color
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. pale
  2. pallid
  3. colorless
  4. blanched
  5. ashen
  6. ashy
  7. bloodless
  8. sickly
  9. pasty
  10. anemic
  11. cadaverous
  12. livid
  13. chalky
  14. dim
  15. lurid
  16. dismal
  17. fade
  18. faint
  19. feeble
  20. etiolated
  21. gloomy
  22. haggard
  23. languid
  24. melancholy
  25. sallow
  26. paleness
  27. waxen
  28. sad
  29. sorrowful
  30. weak
  31. worn
  32. sick
Antonyms:
  1. colorful
  2. strong
  3. flushed
A computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. wide area network
To lose normal coloration; turn pale
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. blanch
  2. bleach
  3. etiolate
  4. pale

Words Related to Wan

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. tired
  2. colors
  3. lan
  4. ConnectPort
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Wan Sentence Examples

  • Rissa met his gaze with a wan smile.

  • The idea that young comedians, furious with the Thatcher regime, might somehow galvanize Britain's youth into activism looks tragically wan now.

  • For emaciated women, words such as " wan " and " lithe " can make them sound elegant.

  • All the advantages wan were hastily surrendered, and Montecucculi, sharply following up the retreat of the French, drove them over the Rhine and almost to the Vosges.

  • It is mentioned Sir Walter Scott in " The Lay of the Last Minstrel " " For he was speechless, ghastly, wan Like him of whom the story ran Who spoke the spectre hound in Man."

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