| 单词 | worn-looking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworn-looking a. Of persons: Wasted, enfeebled, or exhausted by toil, exposure, age, anxiety, or ill-health; showing signs of such enfeeblement. (Cf. care-worn n. at care n.1 Compounds 3.) Also of animals. Also in combinations, as worn-looking adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak unmightyeOE unferea1060 unwieldc1220 fade1303 lewc1325 weak1340 fainta1375 sicklyc1374 unwieldyc1386 impotent1390 delicatea1398 lowa1398 unmighta1450 unlustyc1450 low-brought1459 wearyc1480 failed1490 worn1508 caduke?1518 fainty1530 weak1535 debile1536 fluey1545 tewly?1547 faltering1549 puling1549 imbecilec1550 debilitate1552 flash1562 unable1577 unhealthful1595 unabled1597 whindling1601 infirm1608 debilitated1611 bedrid1629 washya1631 silly1636 fluea1645 tender1645 invaletudinary1661 languishant1674 valetudinaire?c1682 puly1688 thriftless1693 unheartya1699 wishy-washy1703 enervate1706 valetudinarian1713 lask1727 wersh1755 palliea1774 wankle1781 asthenic1789 atonic1792 squeal1794 adynamic1803 worn-down1814 totterish1817 asthenical1819 prostrate1820 used up1823 wankya1825 creaky1834 groggy1834 puny1838 imbeciled1840 rickety-rackety1840 muscleless1841 weedy1849 tottery1861 crocky1880 wimbly-wambly1881 ramshackle1889 twitterly1896 twittery1907 wonky1919 strung out1959 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > showing signs of weariness or exhaustion wearyOE haggard1605 toil-worn1752 tired-faced1895 tired-eyed1905 worn-looking1918 1508 [see sense 1a]. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie W 373 An old worne souldiour, past warre which had a pension. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 17 Finding him so worne and wasted with continual mourning. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ix. 164 Though..The hie and mightie gods should say they would againe renew To youth my worne corpse. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1368/1 To doctor Sanders a naturall borne subiect, but an vnnaturall worne priest. 1688 S. Pepys Mem. Royal Navy (1690) 157 A worn unassisted Secretary. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 550 So worn, so wretched, so despis'd a Crew. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion vii. 351 To conceal Tender emotions spreading from the heart To his worn cheek. View more context for this quotation 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. viii. 302 The President..looked somewhat worn and anxious, and well he might. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxiv. 245 I..was shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face. 1870 T. H. Huxley Lay Serm. iii. 48 The serene resting-place for worn human nature—the world of art. a1891 T. B. Aldrich Lander in Cent. Dict. Lead the worn war-horse by the pluméd bier. 1918 M. B. Lowndes Out of War? 48 Stern worn~looking man. 1978 D. Murphy Place Apart vi. 120 They seem so watchful and worn-looking. < as lemmas |
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