worn — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.

   Examples

   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.

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   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.

Adjective

1. affected by wear; damaged by long use

   Antonyms

   new

   Examples

   worn threads on the screw

   a worn suit

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   the worn pockets on the jacket

2. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

   Synonyms

   careworndrawnhaggardraddled

   Examples

   looking careworn as she bent over her mending

   her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness

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   that raddled but still noble face