Careworn

Quick meaning: Careworn is an adjective meaning Worn down by cares: showing the signs of long-term stress, tired and haggard due to prolonged worry.

Meaning

Worn down by cares: showing the signs of long-term stress, tired and haggard due to prolonged worry.

Example Sentences

The weeks of working hard to look after his sick family left him looking careworn.

I don't find the pose of careless youth charming and engaging any more than you find the pose of careworn age fascinating and eccentric, I should imagine.

At length the long-expected knock was heard. She hurried to the door, and met her husband; a man whose face was care-worn and depressed, though he was young. There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress.

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for careworn

Depending on context, synonyms include drawn, woeworn, haggard, weary, raddled, tired.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include drawn, haggard, tired, raddled, worn, anxious.

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