wannest
Lacking most color
Wannest is the superlative form of wan, meaning palest or most sickly in appearance.
Wan describes a face drained of color from illness, exhaustion, or distress.
The word is literary and somewhat old-fashioned: Her face was at its wannest after weeks of fever.
A wan smile or light is similarly weak and faint.
Unhealthily lacking color
- ashenPale, grayish-white
- blanchedMade white by heat
- colorlessDevoid of pigmentation
- drainedEmptied of resources
pasty · chalky · faded · washed-out · whitish · ghostly · bloodless · anemic
pallid
Unhealthily lacking color
drained · pasty · chalky · faded · washed-out · whitish · ghostly · bloodless · anemic · sallow
pallid
Unhealthily lacking color
ailing · unhealthy · drawn · haggard · gaunt · pinched · anemic · bloodless · frail · languishing
feeble
Weak and ineffective
- faintWeak and indistinct
- dimLow in light
- flickeringShining unsteadily, intermittently
tenuous · fading · dying · failing · waning · ebbing · flagging · faltering · dwindling · diminishing