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Date "weather-beaten" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Synonyms: Weather-beatenSynonyms: weathered (adj), weatherworn (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Adjective: unimproved; (improve; ); deteriorated; Verb: altered, altered for the worse; injured; Verb: sprung; withering, spoiling; Verb: on the wane, on the decline; tabid; degenerate; marescent; worse; the worse for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect; the worse for wear; battered; weathered, weather-beaten; stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags; reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky. |
Fatigue | Adjective: fatigued, tired; Verb: weary; drowsy; drooping; Verb: haggard; toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weather-beaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed ; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed, unrestored. |
Weakness | Languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish; sickly; (disease); dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Weather-beaten |
| Specialty definitions using "weather-beaten": Bootless Errand ♦ CAXON. (references) |
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 | Pinnacle rocks and weather-beaten logs - trademarks of the Oregon coast.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Fishing off a weather-beaten pier at Westland Beach.Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Surface of a weather-beaten pier at Westland Beach.Credit: Fisheries. |  | Rockport, Massachusetts. Weather-beaten roof of a home.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Weather-beaten" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Weather-beaten" is used about 13 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) | 92.31% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "weather-beaten"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 风化摔打, 飽經風霜 (having experienced the hard ship of life). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ahavoitunut (tanned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 野晒し . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | のざらし. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 극복하 치는. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | as daah ny greiney. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eather-beatenway обветренный (weather beaten, winded). (various references) gaяzykmak (become weather-beaten, chapped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "weather-beaten" (pronounced 'Weath"er-beat`en'): Awe-stricken, Caseharden, Chapfallen, Chopfallen, Churchwarden, Crestfallen, Firewarden, Home-driven, Midheaven, motor-driven, Nerve-shaken, Parnassien, Undershapen, War-beaten, Weather-driven, Windfallen, Wind-shaken, Winter-beaten, Woad-waxen, Worm-eaten. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-e-e-h-n-r-t-t-w" | |
-4 letters: bathwater, enwreathe, heartbeat. | |
-5 letters: anteater, aweather, battener, hebetate, hetaerae, tenebrae, terebene, threaten, trabeate, wheatear, wreathen. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 65 61 74 68 65 72 2D 62 65 61 74 65 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 00101101 01100010 01100101 01100001 01110100 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W e a t h e r - b e a t e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0065 0061 0074 0068 0065 0072 002D 0062 0065 0061 0074 0065 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5771678674718415687167867180 |
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