wan

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Unnaturally pale, as from physical or emotional distress.
• adjective Suggestive or indicative of weariness, illness, or unhappiness; melancholy.
• intransitive verb To become pale.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A wan tint or complexion; paleness.
• noun The German name, sometimes used in English, of the dyestuff weld (not woad).
• Dark; black; gloomy: applied to the weather, to water, streams, pools, etc.
• Colorless; pallid; pale; sickly of hue.
• Sorrowful; sad.
• Frightful; awful; great.
• Synonyms Pallid, etc. (see pale), ashy, cadaverous.
• A prefix of Anglo-Saxon origin, frequent in Middle English, meaning ‘wanting, deficient, lacking,’ and used as a negative, like un-, with which it often inter changed.
• To render wan.
• To grow or become wan.
• An old preterit, of win.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun rare The quality of being wan; wanness.
• intransitive verb To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
• adjective Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
• imperative Won.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of win.
• adjective Pale, sickly-looking.
• adjective Dim, faint.
• adjective Bland, uninterested.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
• adjective lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness
• adjective abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
• verb become pale and sickly
• noun a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network