Difference between Pale and Wan

What is the difference between Pale and Wan?

Pale as an adjective is light in color. while Wan as an adjective is pale, sickly-looking.

Pale

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: light in color.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To become pale. To become insignificant.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A wooden stake. A fence, especially one made from wooden stakes. limits, bounds (especially with ) The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale. A vertical band down the middle of a shield. A territory or defensive area that one nation holds in another country, e.g., Britain's medieval control of Calais in France or Dublin in Ireland. The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.

Example sentence: Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Wan

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Pale, sickly-looking.Dim, faint.Bland, uninterested.

We hope you now know whether to use Pale or Wan in your sentence.

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