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What is "careworn" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does careworn mean in English? Meaning of careworn definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "careworn" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "careworn": showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

Adjective

  • Meaning: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
  • Example: 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
  • Synonyms: careworn drawn haggard raddled worn
  • Similar: tired
  • Adjective: Showing the signs of long-term stresses. The weeks of working hard to look after his sick family left him looking careworn. 1915, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger, chapter I: Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.1915, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger, chapter I: Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

    • Synonyms:

    spare, skinny, lean, pale, wan, ashen, drawn, emaciated, exhausted, faded, fatigued, gaunt, ghastly, pallid, scrawny, shrunken, starved, thin, tired, wasted, weak, lank, wearied, wrinkled, fagged, fretted, pinched, scraggy, worn-down, ashen, drawn, emaciated, exhausted, faded, fatigued, gaunt, ghastly, lank, lean, pale, pallid, scrawny, shrunken, skinny, spare, starved, thin, tired, wan, wasted, weak, wearied, worn, fagged, fretted, pinched, scraggy, worn-down, wrinkled,

    Antonyms:

    plump, healthy, fat, thick, colorful, fresh, hearty, strong, unworn,

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