Synonyms of wan

wan

adjective

ˈwän 

as in pallid

lacking a healthy skin color

she looks a little wan after all that tiring work

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pallid
• pale
• paled
• ashen
• sick
• ashy
• pasty
• blanched
• livid
• cadaverous
• doughy
• mealy
• peaked
• sallow
• lurid
• white
• sickly
• waxen
• waxy
• sallowish
• whitened
• anemic
• bloodless
• untanned
• white-faced
• whey-faced

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• red
• ruddy
• rosy
• sanguine
• flush
• florid
• glowing
• blooming
• pink
• rubicund
• flushed
• blushing
• full-blooded

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wan

Evans managed both to placate the money men at Gulf & Western, who wanted to sell Paramount because of its wan revenue, and become a peer of Hollywood's rambunctious talent. — cleveland, 28 Oct. 2019

What seemed inventive and clever in the confines of a small off-Broadway theater feels utterly wan in its current incarnation. — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2019

Our family just discovered Gobi Manchurian, and for anyone who considers cauliflower a wan version of broccoli, try this and banish thoughts of soggy vegetables from your mind. — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018

In spite of the lovingly detailed suburban ambience, interiors, gardens and clothes, the atmosphere feels torqued beyond time and history into a fairy tale theater of desire and wan hope. — Marina Warner, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018