Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Showing the effects of worry, anxiety, or burdensome responsibility: the parent's careworn face.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Worn, oppressed, or burdened with care; showing marks of care or anxiety: as, he was weary and care-worn; a care-worn countenance.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Worn or burdened with care.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
Etymologies
- care + worn (Wiktionary)
Examples
““He does repent,” she said to herself, recalling the careworn face.”
“He does repent," she said to herself, recalling the careworn face.”
“You look --" began Constance -- but "careworn" was a risky term and she stopped.”
“One of them opened the door for Gideon, who entered a large conference room, where President Diggs was talking quietly to a plain but pleasant-faced man in his sixties with the jowly, careworn expression of a hound dog.”
“The one she had addressed as "daughter" was a careworn woman of forty, proprietress and waitress of the house.”
“He stood there dazed and unheeding, his bonny brown hair rumpled down his forehead, his face haggard and careworn and boyish still.”
“The next morning we found him dead in his bed, a peaceful smile upon his careworn face — asphyxiation.”
“Though the Head Boy of our year still looks cherubic, if a little careworn.”
“But Mr. Kubrick makes the coda work—with Mr. Krause's camera locking onto a host of careworn faces as beasts transform into men while listening to the girl's halting version of a sentimental ballad.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Great Film's Sadly Timeless Message
“Some have long hair, are shaggy and careworn, some have short hair, are sleek and cougar-esque.”
The Huffington Post: James Scarborough: "Cats," Musical Theatre West
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘careworn’.
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WOOZ
Words contained in the screenplay of Wizard of Oz, 1939 film.
Comments show the actual "line" from the film.
The words are tagged for grade-levelpusillanimous, genuflect, cataclysmic, vernacular, peasantry, aver, caliginous, tedious, advent, careworn, bovine, commodity and 34 more...
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Mondayish
Tired. Of all of it.
mondayish, tucker, shank-weary, faik, fash, palestric, shot, careworn, world-weary, world-weariness, wayworn, wearying and 81 more...
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Words of Wear
Words describing worn out objects
worn, tattered, threads, ratty, dirty, old, smudgy, hand me down, stained, threadbare, decrepit, shoddy and 21 more...
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good ones
grumble, fumble, bumble, stumble, crumble, mumble, jumble, humble, bramble, scramble, amble, ramble and 191 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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Miscellany, pt. c
chokedamp, clitter, circumbendibus, catmint, cacoëpy, co-feoffee, caribou, conturbation, chalicothere, calamus, cochineal, cincture and 168 more...
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lanas's Words
serendipitous, insouciant, charming, sanguine, dear, odd, quaint, small, tremble, blush, flirt, tryst and 248 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Look Busy
Get to work!
ergophobia, elucubrate, karoshi, dogsbody, forswonk, moil, deft, assiduous, panurgic, paperasserie, bumf, blackleg and 91 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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Luck in the Shadows
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Luck in the Shadows.
belly, barbican, pediment, withers, hirsute, oriel, tabard, telesm, thaumaturgy, switch, spargetaction, towheaded and 125 more...
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The Good Soldier
Words taken from The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.
concatenation, vorticist, imagiste, auk, acquaintanceship, perforce, tapageu, jeunes, minuet, outsound, sedulous, goodheartedness and 105 more...
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simple & useful 17
lurid, idiomatically, lachrymosity, mezzanine, ellipsis, vituperatively, iniquitous, ghastly, recherché, effervesce, arrears, humbugged and 82 more...
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dbekeny PROFESSOR
Yes, there's -- there's a woman -- she's....
...she's wearing a polka-dot dress....
...her face is careworn.
Jun 9, 2010
whichbe My favorite of the Carebears. Oct 28, 2008
bilby "I looked up and noticed that the horse and rider had just passed the young woman. The rider was a tall man with distinguished features and a careworn face, bent into a frown by some musings that seemed to envelop him in thoughtful detachment."
- Jasper Fforde, 'The Eyre Affair'. Oct 27, 2008