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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Showing the effects of worry, anxiety, or burdensome responsibility: the parent's careworn face.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Worn, oppressed, or burdened with care; showing marks of care or anxiety: as, he was weary and care-worn; a care-worn countenance.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Showing the signs of long-term stresses.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Worn or burdened with care.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

Etymologies

  1. care + worn (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • ““He does repent,” she said to herself, recalling the careworn face.”

    Red Pottage

  • “He does repent," she said to herself, recalling the careworn face.”

    Red Pottage

  • “You look --" began Constance -- but "careworn" was a risky term and she stopped.”

    Kincaid's Battery

  • “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.”

    Simon & Schuster: Gideon’s war

  • “The one she had addressed as "daughter" was a careworn woman of forty, proprietress and waitress of the house.”

    COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES

  • “He stood there dazed and unheeding, his bonny brown hair rumpled down his forehead, his face haggard and careworn and boyish still.”

    SUICIDE

  • “The next morning we found him dead in his bed, a peaceful smile upon his careworn face — asphyxiation.”

    The Minions of Midas

  • “Though the Head Boy of our year still looks cherubic, if a little careworn.”

    President Kaczyński

  • “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

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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

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