'Worn' definitions:
Definition of 'worn'
From: WordNet
adjective
Affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket" [ant: new]
adjective
Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn]
Definition of 'Worn'
From: GCIDE
- Wear \Wear\, v. t. [imp. Wore (w[=o]r); p. p. Worn (w[=o]rn); p. pr. & vb. n. Wearing. Before the 15th century wear was a weak verb, the imp. & p. p. being Weared.] [OE. weren, werien, AS. werian to carry, to wear, as arms or clothes; akin to OHG. werien, weren, to clothe, Goth. wasjan, L. vestis clothing, vestire to clothe, Gr. "enny`nai, Skr. vas. Cf. Vest.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle. [1913 Webster]
- What compass will you wear your farthingale? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance. "He wears the rose of youth upon him." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- His innocent gestures wear A meaning half divine. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend. [1913 Webster]
- That wicked wight his days doth wear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- The waters wear the stones. --Job xiv. 19. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To form or shape by, or as by, attrition. [1913 Webster]
- Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in the first essay, displeased us. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- To wear away, to consume; to impair, diminish, or destroy, by gradual attrition or decay.
- To wear off, to diminish or remove by attrition or slow decay; as, to wear off the nap of cloth.
- To wear on or To wear upon, to wear. [Obs.] "[I] weared upon my gay scarlet gites [gowns.]" --Chaucer.
- To wear out. (a) To consume, or render useless, by attrition or decay; as, to wear out a coat or a book. (b) To consume tediously. "To wear out miserable days." --Milton. (c) To harass; to tire. "[He] shall wear out the saints of the Most High." --Dan vii. 25. (d) To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in military service.
- To wear the breeches. See under Breeches. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Worn'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'worn'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'worn'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abated,
- ablated,
- ablative,
- attenuated,
- ausgespielt,
- back-number,
- banal,
- bare,
- bated,
- belittled,
- bewhiskered,
- biodegradable,
- bromidic,
- burned-out,
- careworn,
- common,
- commonplace,
- consumed,
- contracted,
- corny,
- corrosive,
- crumbling,
- curtailed,
- cut-and-dried,
- debilitated,
- decomposable,
- decomposing,
- decreased,
- deep-worn,
- deflated,
- degradable,
- devitalized,
- dilapidated,
- diminished,
- disabled,
- disintegrable,
- disintegrated,
- disintegrating,
- disintegrative,
- disjunctive,
- disruptive,
- dissipated,
- dog-eared,
- drained,
- drawn,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dropped,
- dusty,
- effete,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- eroded,
- erosive,
- eviscerated,
- exhausted,
- fade,
- fagged,
- faint,
- fainting,
- fallen,
- familiar,
- fatigued,
- feeling faint,
- flagging,
- footsore,
- frazzled,
- fusty,
- gone to seed,
- good and tired,
- hackney,
- hackneyed,
- haggard,
- hand-me-down,
- hollow-eyed,
- incapacitated,
- jaded,
- languid,
- less,
- lesser,
- lower,
- lowered,
- mildewed,
- miniaturized,
- moldering,
- moldy,
- moss-grown,
- moth-eaten,
- musty,
- not new,
- old hat,
- pawed-over,
- pinched,
- platitudinous,
- played out,
- ravaged,
- ready to drop,
- reduced,
- resolvent,
- retrenched,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- run ragged,
- run-down,
- rusty,
- sagging,
- sapped,
- scaled-down,
- secondhand,
- seedy,
- separative,
- sere,
- set,
- shelfworn,
- shopworn,
- shorn,
- shorter,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- smaller,
- solvent,
- spent,
- square,
- stale,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- threadbare,
- time-scarred,
- timeworn,
- tired,
- tired-eyed,
- tired-faced,
- tired-looking,
- tired-winged,
- toilworn,
- trite,
- truistic,
- unnew,
- unoriginal,
- unrefreshed,
- unrestored,
- used,
- used up,
- wan,
- warmed-over,
- wasted,
- watered-down,
- way-weary,
- wayworn,
- weak,
- weakened,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- weary,
- weary-footed,
- weary-laden,
- weary-looking,
- weary-winged,
- weary-worn,
- well-known,
- well-worn,
- wilting,
- worn down,
- worn ragged,
- worn thin,
- worn to rags,
- worn to threads,
- worn-down,
- worn-out