wan

Adjective

• lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness
  • a wan smile
    

• abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
  • the pallid face of the invalid
    
  • her wan face suddenly flushed
    

• (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
    

Noun

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

Verb

• become pale and sickly

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  pale , pallid , sick , wide area network , WAN