careworn

Thân thiện

Her face looked careworn as she sat by the window.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Showing the wearing effects of overwork, worry, or suffering: Describes a person's appearance that looks tired, strained, or aged due to prolonged stress, anxiety, or hardship.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • She looked careworn as she bent over her mending.
  • His careworn expression revealed the stress of the past few months.
  • The long years of responsibility left him with a careworn face.

Advanced Usage

• Used to describe inanimate objects metaphorically: While typically for people, it can be applied poetically to things that appear weathered or exhausted.
  • The careworn old house seemed to sigh in the wind.

Variants and Related Words

• Care-laden (adj): Burdened with care or worry. (Less common synonym)
• Careworn is a compound adjective formed from "care" + "worn" (past participle of "wear").

Synonyms

• Haggard: Looking exhausted and unwell, especially from fatigue, worry, or suffering.
• Drawn: (Of a face) looking tense and tired.
• Worn: Affected by wear or use; also used for a tired appearance.
• Weary: Feeling or showing tiredness.
• Haggard: Looking exhausted and unwell, especially from fatigue, worry, or suffering.

Antonyms

• Fresh-faced: Having a healthy, youthful, and rested appearance.
• Unworried: Not anxious or concerned.
• Untroubled: Not disturbed by problems or anxiety.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• To bear the marks of care: An idiom with a similar meaning to appearing careworn.
  • He bore the marks of care after decades of running the family business.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• drawn
• haggard
• raddled
• worn