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careworn

English

Etymology

From care (“sorrow, worry”) +? worn.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k??w??n/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?k????w??n/
  • Hyphenation: care?worn

Adjective

careworn (comparative more careworn, superlative most careworn)

  1. Worn down by cares: showing the signs of long-term stress, tired and haggard due to prolonged worry.
    • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 49:
      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.

Translations

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troubled

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t??bl?d/

Adjective

troubled (comparative more troubled, superlative most troubled)

  1. anxious, worried, careworn.
    • Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] 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.

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Verb

troubled

  1. simple past tense and past participle of trouble

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