Careworn

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Careworn \Care"worn`\, a.
     Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  careworn
       adj : 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 [syn: {drawn}, {haggard}, {raddled},
              {worn}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "careworn":
     aggrieved, anguished, distressed, doleful, dolorous, drawn,
     dumb with grief, exhausted, fagged, grief-stricken, griefful,
     grieved, grievous, heavy-laden, in grief, jaded, lamentable,
     lugubrious, mournful, pinched, plaintive, plangent,
     plunged in grief, rueful, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, tearful,
     troubled, tuckered, woeful, worn