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wan / wän/ • adj. (of a person's complexion or appearance) pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion: she was looking wan and bleary-eyed. ∎ (of light) pale; weak: the wan dawn light. ∎ (of a smile) weak; strained. ∎ poetic/lit. (of the sea) without luster; dark and gloomy.DERIVATIVES: wan·ly adv.wan·ness n.
wan
wan †dusky, dark; livid, leaden-hued OE.; pallid, unusually pale XIII. OE. wan(n), of unkn. orig.
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