Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Withered; wizen.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of wizen.
- adj. withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
Examples
“The old woman grinned back at Leia, her expression wizened by years.”
“And we threw out the governor and replaced him with this kind of wizened homunculus who used to play robots.”
“They're limp an 'wizened 'long to the fust of the spring.”
“You might want to investigate the difference between 'wizened' and 'wise'.”
“These wizened men, who have seen more of life than I wish to imagine, become silent guardians.”
The Huffington Post: Ben Colclough: Walking on top of the world
“Portray the wizened and wise Jedi master with a Yoda rubber mask or Obi-Wan Kenobi outfit.”
“Once the client has successfully relieved her- or himself of this burden, the office manager goes in for the kill usually a thick layer of sugary rebuke only a wizened mother of three can muster: "Now let's start over without all the foul language so I can properly understand you.”
“As a reward for Melvin's good deed, the wizened recluse left the usually luckless Samaritan a fortune.”
“In the next room, Tiepolo eschews Rococo cherubs to present us instead with the remarkable portrait of a wizened but defiant Daniele Dolfin IV 1756.”
“Every feature of his wizened visage seemed to ask, “Did you not just tell me to behave myself?””
Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wizened’.
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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WordMasters Blue Division Set 2
verge, taper, lucrative, prig, ransack, wizened, martinet, flucuate, verbose, enigma, subdue, fertile and 12 more...
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Bodily
wigwag, caprae, hylozoism, abiogenesis, whorl, entropy, anima, anthropoid, avatar, symbiont, symbiote, android and 34 more...
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Deceptively named words
Words that mean the opposite of what they sound like they mean
pulchritude, enervate, restive, puissant, redoubtable, spendthrift, quean, matriculate, tripping, gainsay, nonplus, prosaic and 12 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 483 more...
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I am : physical
Describing appearance and physique. More quantitative than qualitative/comparative. Can be used to sum a person up one-wordedly. (Still working on the definition of what I want in this list.)
handsome, beautiful, pretty, comely, ugly, rugged, buxom, buff, chiseled, svelte, lithe, portly and 35 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1908 more...
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List 015
compelling, clandestine, capacious, captivate, amicable, emulate, fetter, frugal, hackneyed, hiatus, inane, jubilant and 13 more...
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jeffreytwhitney's list
abecedarian, assonance, prolix, avuncular, baleful, borborygmus, accismus, atavism, catachresis, coruscant, callipygian, carbuncle and 117 more...
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Words I Should Use More Often
Words that I'll use to sound erudite.
fungible, aggrandizement, tete-a-tete, sententious, serendipitous, fortuitous, lugubrious, declivity, propitiatory, volubility, august, tenebrous and 214 more...
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my GRE words
pedant, wizened, histrionic, logorrhea, frenetic, approbation, quibble, knell, acclivity, droog, prevarication, aplomb and 182 more...
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GRE verbal 1
GRE
hypocrisy, wizened, arcane, nascent, trifling, malaise, quibble, derogatory, inept, recant, splenetic, insouciance and 21 more...
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Faves
nepenthe, cupidity, anodyne, obdurate, doleful, obsolescent, quale, piquant, velleity, inchoate, disport, facile and 366 more...
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gerwitz's Words
erudite, autodidactic, callipygian, ouroboros, zounds, fie, wabi, sabi, gedankenexperiment, zeitgeist, eliminativism, aether and 157 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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