Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or suggesting lack or want; meagre; lean; lacking.

wantish flesh

Suggesting or pertaining to wants or desires; desirous.

She's wantish and never satisfied.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) quite wan, quite pale

*{{quote-book, year=1890, author=Hezekiah Butterworth, title=The Log School-House on the Columbia, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The moon turns the smoke into wannish clouds of white and yellow, which slowly rise, break, and disappear. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1894, author=Leigh Gordon Giltner, title=The Path of Dreams, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1909, author=John Keats, title=Keats= Poems Published in 1820, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire Sprinkled with stars, like Ariadne's tiar: Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet! }}