wan
adjective
[ wɒn ]
• (of a person's complexion or appearance) pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion.
• "she was looking wan and bleary-eyed"
Similar:
pale,
pallid,
ashen,
white,
white as a sheet,
grey,
anaemic,
jaundiced,
colourless,
bloodless,
waxen,
chalky,
milky,
pasty,
pasty-faced,
whey-faced,
peaky,
sickly,
tired-looking,
washed out,
sallow,
drained,
drawn,
sapped,
ghostly,
deathly,
deathlike,
bleached,
etiolated,
Origin:
Old English wann ‘dark, black’, of unknown origin.
WAN
abbreviation
• wide area network.
• Nigeria (international vehicle registration).
wide area network
noun
• a computer network in which the computers connected may be far apart, generally having a radius of more than 1 km.
