worn

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//wɔːn//
United States//woɹn//
Australia//woːn//
Scotland//woɾn//

Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.

adjective

1
Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
Upon this, an unhappy-looking woman, in a sort of mourning, neat, but sadly worn, hid her face behind a meagre bundle, and was heard to sob.
In Pisa, where [Galileo] was born, I climbed the worn steps of the tower that has been leaning southward almost from the day it was built in the 13th century.
2
Worn out; exhausted.
Preëminently is the Lake District suited for the jaded and worn, who seek in solitude and amidst scenery unmoiled and unsullied by human artifice, refreshment alike of body and spirit.

Etymology

By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.

verb

1
Also a form of wearpast participle of wear

Forms

comparative: more worn
superlative: most worn

Worm · A surname.wormhole · A hole burrowed by a worm.Worms · An independent town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

worn · Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.

worried · Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that…worry · To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.worrying · Inducing worry.

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