(written) looking pale and weak:
his grey, wan face * She gave me a wan smile (= showing no energy or enthusiasm). * the wan sunlight of a winter's morning
wanly adverb:
He smiled wanly.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for wan is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is wan a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, wan is tagged as adjective.
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