What does wearing mean?
Wearing means (not comparable) Intended to be worn..
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/ˈwɛɹɪŋ/ · adjective
(not comparable) Intended to be worn..
Clothes used to be called wearing apparel.
[The biography] also displays a rather wearing fidelity to chronology that gives rise to too many summer holidays at the beginning of the book and too many royalty statements towards the end.
Comparison of the four bogie designs shows that the Rugby-built A.E.I. bogie has the least number of components and a minimum of metallic wearing surfaces.
formal crown-wearings
Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.
Use wearing when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wearing means (not comparable) Intended to be worn..
Common synonyms include draining, tiresome, exhausting, exhaustive.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Clothes used to be called wearing apparel.
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