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wanness

/won/US // wɒn //UK // (wɒn) //

懦弱,渴望,胆小怕事,贪婪

Related Words

pasty糊状物,糊状的,糊状,糊糊dim暗淡,昏暗,昏暗的,暗淡无光blanched焯水,焯过水的,焯过水,烫过的faint微弱的,淡淡的,晕眩的,晕倒的worn磨损的,破旧的,磨损,穿着的peaked峰值,峰值的,峰顶的,峰顶white白色,白,白色的,白的pale苍白,苍白的,浅色,淡淡的haggard憔悴,憔悴的,憔悴的人,憔悴不堪discolored变色的,褪色的,变色,变色了bleached漂白的,漂白过的,漂白了,漂白了的anemic贫血,贫血症,贫血的,贫穷ashen苍白,苍白无力,苍白的,灰色的bloodless无血,无血的,不流血,不流血的cadaverous尸体的,尸身,尸体,死尸feeble软弱无力,衰弱,弱小,软弱ghastly惨不忍睹,惨不忍睹的,骇人听闻,骇人听闻的ineffective无效的,无效,不起作用的,不起作用ineffectual不有效,不有效的,无效果,不有效用livid气势汹汹,气势磅礴,鲜艳,鲜红

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    wan·ner, wan·nest.

    • : of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color: His wan face suddenly flushed.
    • : showing or suggesting ill health, fatigue, unhappiness, etc.: a wan look; a wan smile.
    • : lacking in forcefulness, competence, or effectiveness: their wan attempts to organize the alumni.
    • : Archaic. dark or gloomy.pale in color or hue.
  1. 1

    wanned, wan·ning.

    • : to become or make wan.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inpallor
Synonyms
colorlessness无色性,无色,无色的,无色透明etiolation蜕变,蚀变,黄化,蜕皮pallidity苍白度,苍白性,苍白,苍白无力sallowness苍白无力,苍白,苍白无力感,苍老师whiteness白度,洁白度,白色,洁白achromatic消色差,消色龙,消色性,消色差的bloodlessness无血性,无血无肉,无血缘关系,无血cadaverousness尸位素餐,尸气,尸气冲天,尸体pastiness过去性,过度,过度性,过去的事

Examples

  • Dig below the surface, though, and the broth, supposedly made with beef broth and cognac, has been wan eating both times I’ve tried it.

  • “Expat bankers are definitely into the drugs/hooker scene, and Wan Chai is the very epicenter,” he told The Daily Beast.

  • Laughing at one's own participants is a fine strategy for a show like "I Wanna Marry Harry."

  • “I wanna go inside every corner / Girl, you really turn me on / I wanna go knock, knock our bodies to the beat”?

  • What in the name of Obi-Wan would this mean for the series, including the Expanded Universe?

  • If you wanna help, tell the CIA to stop trying to kill me.

  • A vast assemblage of countless thousands of women, and boys, and wan and starving men, gathered in the streets of Paris.

  • Humanity shut its eyes in view of the hideous apparition of wan and haggard beggary and crime.

  • The colored woman came running, and with her Grace, who looked at the wan features of the soldier with piteous eyes.

  • Margaret lay, wan and exhausted, on the sofa—the doctor looked very melancholy and rather stern, and the others were silent.

  • Julie acknowledged this flattery by a wan little smile, and following Hester out of the 24 room, went in to see her father.

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