Wizened

3 definitions found

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

  Wizened \Wiz"ened\, a.
     Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened
     old man.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  wizened
       adj : lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the
             old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and
             ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man
             with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he
             did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little
             man with frizzy gray hair" [syn: {shriveled}, {shrivelled},
              {shrunken}, {withered}, {wizen}]

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

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "wizened":
     Lilliputian, Sanforized, Tom Thumb, adust, anile, atrophied,
     attenuated, baked, brittle, burnt, cadaverous, consumed, corky,
     corpselike, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated,
     doddered, doddering, doddery, dried, dried-up, dumpy, dwarf,
     dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated,
     evaporated, exsiccated, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic,
     haggard, hollow-eyed, incipient, infirm, jejune, marantic,
     marasmic, meager, midget, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummified,
     mummylike, nanoid, palsied, papery, papery-skinned, parched,
     parchmenty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, preshrunk, puny, pygmy,
     ravaged with age, rickety, rudimental, rudimentary, run to seed,
     runty, rusty, scorched, scraggy, scrubby, sear, seared, senile,
     sere, shaky, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal,
     squat, starved, starveling, stricken in years, stunted, sun-dried,
     sunbaked, tabetic, tabid, thin, timeworn, tottering, tottery,
     underfed, undernourished, undersize, undersized, wasted,
     wasted away, weak, weazened, weazeny, wilted, wind-dried, withered,
     wizen, wizen-faced, wraithlike, wrinkled