careworn
IPA: kˈɛrwˈɔrn
adjective
- Worn down by cares: showing the signs of long-term stress, tired and haggard due to prolonged worry.
Advertisement
Examples of "careworn" in Sentences
- He seemed very careworn.
- Jane did not come careworn.
- We should not live careworn.
- She looks more careworn than ever.
- The careworn man did not seem too worried.
- Careworn housewife is overburdened with children.
- She has not heard a word from Pan and is looking careworn.
- Now, Holmes's friend had become thin and careworn by the ordeal.
- Careworn people might live miserable lives; and I feel sorry for them.
- Her haggard, careworn looks speak only too plainly of her dreadful experience.