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单词 careworn
释义

careworn

adjective

care·​worn ˈker-ˌwȯrn How to pronounce careworn (audio)
: showing the effect of grief or anxiety
a careworn face

Example Sentences

He has a careworn face. He looks tired and careworn.
Recent Examples on the Web The Futurist Cookbook wasn't meant to be an instructive culinary text or a careworn book in the kitchens of Milan. Amanda Arnold, Bon Appétit, 23 June 2022 On a recent Friday, Dolores, a large, careworn woman of fifty, lay in a bed built from used rods and wooden planks. Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2022 Pantomimes stuck with that convention, and one of the stars is still a man dressed as a careworn mother — the Dame. Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 15 Dec. 2021 The cheap, careworn hide suggests many things — neglect, decay, unraveling. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021 Chu, along with his cinematographer, Alice Brooks, and his production team, take care to capture the neighborhood’s careworn beauty: Nothing looks too new or too shiny. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 June 2021 Materially, that meant remodeling his careworn kitchen and installing a new roof—ideally, a metal one. Longreads, 21 Dec. 2017 Her conveyance is Vanguard, a careworn white van, its headlights searching out a new future, everything bungee-corded down. Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021 Meeting Darren Hendricks -- one of Pine Bluff's newest residents -- for the first time, one might be struck by his friendly, open and calmly self-assured demeanor that is in stark contrast to his gruff and somewhat careworn appearance. Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2020 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1790, in the meaning defined above

careworn

adjective

as in downcast

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • downcast
  • woebegone
  • downcast
  • forlorn
  • glum
  • disconsolate
  • downhearted
  • dejected
  • crestfallen
  • dispirited
  • gloomy
  • unhappy
  • downhearted
  • sad
  • depressed
  • low-spirited
  • tearful
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • miserable
  • despondent
  • inconsolable
  • brokenhearted
  • melancholy
  • crying
  • triste
  • groaning
  • elegiac
  • bawling
  • keening
  • moaning
  • morose
  • sorrowful
  • lugubrious
  • anguished
  • howling
  • doleful
  • mournful
  • yammering
  • cheerless
  • suffering
  • glum
  • sullen
  • bleeding
  • plaintive
  • agonized
  • plangent
  • grieving
  • rueful
  • aching
  • heartbroken
  • weeping
  • regretful
  • gloomy
  • funereal
  • somber
  • lamentable
  • wailing
  • saturnine
  • gray
  • dolorous
  • bleak
  • joyless
  • funeral
  • elegiacal
  • desolate
  • piteous
  • moody
  • woeful
  • comfortless
  • pessimistic
  • morbid
  • dreary
  • dirgelike
  • dismal
  • deploring
  • miserable
  • bitter
  • black
  • darkening
  • bewailing
  • bemoaning
  • pathetic
  • sombre
  • wretched
  • dark
  • sorry
  • grey
  • dolesome
  • low

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • cheerful
  • triumphant
  • joyful
  • cheery
  • happy
  • smiling
  • bright
  • delighted
  • blithe
  • jolly
  • buoyant
  • joyous
  • optimistic
  • merry
  • laughing
  • mirthful
  • exulting
  • rejoicing
  • hopeful
  • lighthearted
  • blissful
  • blithesome
  • glorying
  • cheering
  • encouraging
  • giddy
  • rapturous
  • euphoric
  • ecstatic
  • jocund
  • rhapsodic
  • heady
  • exhilarated
  • elated
  • rhapsodical
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