worn
adjectifverbecourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//wɔːn//
- États-Unis//woɹn//
- Australie//woːn//
- Écosse//woɾn//
Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
adjectif
- 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.
Étymologie
By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.
verbe
- 1
Aussi une forme de wearpast participle of wear
Formes
- comparatif
- more worn
- superlatif
- most worn
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.