Synonyms for wan
wɒnwan

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1. wan

   Synonyms:
   pale, livid, lurid, dusky, bloodless, haggard

   Antonyms:
   fresh-colored, lively, bright, incarnadine, sanguine, chubby

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1. wide area network, WANadjective

   a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network

   Synonyms:
   wide area network

   Antonyms:
   alive, colourful, strong, animated, colorful

2. pale, pallid, wan, sickadjective

   (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble

   "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"

   Synonyms:
   queasy, sickish, pale, mad, unhinged, sick(p), sick, ghastly, grisly, fed up(p), gruesome, nauseous, macabre, brainsick, ill, sick of(p), demented, crazy, grim, disturbed, tired of(p), unbalanced, disgusted, nauseated, pallid

   Antonyms:
   alive, strong, animated, colorful, colourful

3. pale, pallid, wanadjective

   abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress

   "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed"

   Synonyms:
   pallid, pale, sick

   Antonyms:
   strong, colourful, alive, animated, colorful

4. wanverb

   lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness

   "a wan smile"

   Synonyms:
   pallid, pale, sick

   Antonyms:
   animated, alive, colourful, strong, colorful

5. wanverb

   become pale and sickly

   Antonyms:
   animated, colorful, alive, colourful, strong

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1. • Sicken

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1. wanadjective

   Synonyms:
   pale, pallid, cadaverous, ashy, of a sickly hue

2. wanverb

   Synonyms:
   turn pale, grow pale

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1. List of paraphrases for "wan":

   bay, wans, beach, cove, gulf

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1. wan

   Synonyms:
   Pill-Chinese medicine, see there
   

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How to use wan in a sentence?

1. Danica McKellar:

   Draco, I will support you whatever you wan na do. I would put you in acting classes and I would help guide you through it.

2. Walt Disney Co:

   The story focuses on how young Han Solo became the smuggler, thief and scoundrel whom Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi first encountered in the cantina at Mos Eisley.

3. De La Hoya:

   I am actually very, very serious, and I strongly feel that if a Kanye West can do it and announce and maybe tease the world that Canelo Alvarez would maybe one day wan na run for president, why not me ? .

4. Stuart Stevens:

   There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug Howl the eternal yes

5. John Vignocchi:

   So now we've got way more advanced, way more expressive move sets than we've ever had before, a character like Anakin Skywalker is using his Force powers to pull and does lots of cool air juggles and is really much more of an aggressive Jedi than, say, someone like Obi-Wan Kenobi, who is much more of a defensive Jedi.