CAREWORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does careworn mean? 

• CAREWORN (adjective)
  The adjective CAREWORN has 1 sense:

1. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

  Familiarity information: CAREWORN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAREWORN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

Synonyms:

careworn; drawn; haggard; raddled; worn

Context example:

shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face

Similar:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

 Context examples 

He had grown thin and careworn, and had lost the loud, cheery manner for which he had been remarkable.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her face was very pretty still, but it looked careworn, and too delicate; and her hand was so thin and white that it seemed to me to be almost transparent.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Miss Miller was more ordinary; ruddy in complexion, though of a careworn countenance; hurried in gait and action, like one who had always a multiplicity of tasks on hand: she looked, indeed, what I afterwards found she really was, an under-teacher.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)