wan

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Unnaturally pale, as from physical or emotional distress.
2. adj. Suggestive or indicative of weariness, illness, or unhappiness; melancholy: a wan expression.
3. v. To become pale.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A wan tint or complexion; paleness.
2. n. The German name, sometimes used in English, of the dyestuff weld (not woad).
3. Dark; black; gloomy: applied to the weather, to water, streams, pools, etc.
4. Colorless; pallid; pale; sickly of hue.
5. Sorrowful; sad.
6. Frightful; awful; great.
7. Synonyms Pallid, etc. (see pale), ashy, cadaverous.
8. To render wan.
9. To grow or become wan.
10. An old preterit, of win.
11. A prefix of Anglo-Saxon origin, frequent in Middle English, meaning ‘wanting, deficient, lacking,’ and used as a negative, like un-, with which it often inter changed. It differs from un- in denoting more em-phaticaliy the fact of privation. It still exists as a recog nized prefix in provincial use, and in literary use, unrecog nized as a prefix, in wanton.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Pale, sickly-looking.
2. adj. Dim, faint.
3. adj. Bland, uninterested.
4. v. simple past tense and past participle of win.
5. v. want, want to
6. v. Third-person singular of Xyzy}}.
7. nonstandard spelling of Latn (“wān”).
8. nonstandard spelling of Latn (“wán”).
9. nonstandard spelling of Latn (“wǎn”).
10. nonstandard spelling of Latn (“wàn”).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. Won.
2. adj. Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
3. n. The quality of being wan; wanness.
4. v. To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
2. adj. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness
3. adj. abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
4. v. become pale and sickly
5. n. a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network