wan
Meaning
Opposite of
colorful, colorific, coloury, achromatic, colorless, dim, Having one color:, monochrome, monochromatic, monocolor, monocoloured, self-coloured, unicolor, unicolored
Synonyms
Translations
pâle
pálido
fahl
bleek
pálido
χλωμός
pallidus
pallidoFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/wɒn/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English wan, wanne (“grey, leaden; pale grey, ashen; blue-black (like a bruise); dim, faint; dark, gloomy”), from Old English wann (“dark, dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *wannaz (“dark, swart”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wann, wonn (“dark”).
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