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say it: wahn
wan is an adjective, noun and verb meaning "(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble". It is pronounced /ˈwɑn/ — wahn. It carries 5 recorded senses.
abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
“the pallid face of the invalid”
“her wan face suddenly flushed”
a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network
become pale and sickly
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wan come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.