Careworn

Definition: Careworn

Careworn

Adjective

1. Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens.

Date "careworn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Careworn

Synonyms: drawn (adj), haggard (adj), raddled (adj), worn (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dejection	Overcome; broken down, borne down, bowed down; heartstricken; (mental suffering); cut up, dashed, sunk; unnerved, unmanned; down fallen, downtrodden; broken-hearted; careworn.
Pain	Unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone; cheerless; (dejected); careworn.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Careworn

English words defined with "careworn": drawn ♦ haggard ♦ raddled ♦ worn. (references)

Specialty definitions using "careworn": Bride ♦ Husband ♦ Mirror. (references)

"Careworn" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Careworn" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	11	106,044

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "careworn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i konsumuar (hackneyed), i dërrmuar (broken, dispirited, frazzle, haggard, woebegone, woeful, woesome). (various references)

Arabic		‏مهموم (anxious, concerned, solicitous, troubled, uneasy, worried). (various references)

Bulgarian		очукан (battered, crushed, knockedabout, weather-worn), посърнал (faded, haggard), измъчен (afflicted, chivied, drawn, gaunt, haggard, jaded, labored, laboured, pinched), изморен (bushed, exhausted, forworn, tired, weary). (various references)

Czech		ustaraný (concerned, drawn, troubled, worried). (various references)

French		rongé par les soucis. (various references)

German		verhärmt (haggard, hag-ridden, peaked, peaky, pinched, worried), gramerfüllt. (various references)

Greek		γεμάτοσ σκοτούρεσ. (various references)

Hungarian		gondterhelt (care-worn), elcsigázott (deadbeat, exhausted, jaded, spent, to feel used up). (various references)

Indonesian		diganggu kesusahan. (various references)

Italian		logorato dalle preoccupazioni. (various references)

Manx		ceaut lesh imnea. (various references)

Pig Latin		areworncay

Russian		измученный заботами (care-worn). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		izjeden brigom. (various references)

Spanish		cansado de cuidar, agobiado de preocupaciones. (various references)

Swedish		tärd (haggard, wasted, worn). (various references)

Turkish		endişeden bitkin, üzgün (afflicted, aggrieved, bleak, chagrined, crestfallen, dejected, downcast, downhearted, glum, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, pained, regretful, rueful, sad, sick at heart, sorrowful, sorry, stricken, tearful, troubled, unhappy, upset, worried), üzüntüden bitmiş. (various references)

Ukranian		знесилений (all out, bleeding, drooping, effete, far gone, harassed, overcome), змучений турботами. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	curiosa, curiosae, curiose, curiosius, curiosus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Careworn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Canewdon. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-o-r-r-w"
	-1 letter: crowner, recrown.
	-2 letters: cornea, corner, crower, narrow, rancor, warner, warren.
	-3 letters: acorn, arrow, caner, canoe, carer, corer, cower, crane, crone, crore, crown, nacre, narco, ocean, ocrea, owner, racer, racon, rance, rawer, recon, reran, rewan, rewon, rowan, rowen, rower.
	-4 letters: acne, acre, aeon, aero, anew, arco, cane, care, carn, carr, cero, cone, core, corn, craw.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-o-r-r-w"
	+2 letters: cankerworm, cordwainer, cornerways.
	+3 letters: cankerworms, cordwainers, cordwainery.
	+4 letters: contrariwise, henceforward.
	+5 letters: cordwaineries, thenceforward.
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