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What is the adjective for wannish?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs wane and wanse which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

waning
  1. Becoming weaker or smaller.
  2. Of the lunar phase: as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “In recent decades, his waning strength proved no match for the ravages of well intentioned but overbearing regulations.”
      “A race has developed between the waning sunlight and the weakened ice.”
waned
  1. (woodworking) Having wanes, i.e. rounded corners caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
wannish
  1. (obsolete) quite wan, quite pale
  2. Examples:
    1. “The moon turns the smoke into wannish clouds of white and yellow, which slowly rise, break, and disappear.”
      “Sheer slanting down the sky an opal light Pierces the snow-blur's veil of wannish gray, In iridescent sheen, tingeing the dazzling white With amethystine, gold or beryl ray.”
wanned
  1. Made wan, or pale.
wanner
  1. comparative form of wan: more wan
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Then ye might wanner add this raggety pirate skull box theme and the skull background to ye olde profile, it sure is a fine loot!”
      “But Tewolde suspected that results could be different in the South and Southeast, where wanner temperatures could make the nitrogen in the litter dissipate more quickly.”
      “This is a significant indicator that things have gotten wanner.”
wannest
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