All careworn synonyms
care·worn
C c adj careworn
- worn — past participle of wear.
- spare — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- skinny — very lean or thin; emaciated: a skinny little kitten.
- lean — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- pale — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- wan — of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color: His wan face suddenly flushed.
- ashen — Someone who is ashen looks very pale, especially because they are ill, shocked, or frightened.
- drawn — past participle of draw.
- faded — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
- fatigued — of or relating to fatigues or any clothing made to resemble them: The guerrilla band wore fatigue pants and field jackets. She brought fatigue shorts to wear on the hike.
- gaunt — extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- ghastly — shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
- pallid — pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
- scrawny — excessively thin; lean; scraggy: a long, scrawny neck.
- shrunken — a past participle of shrink.
- thin — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
- tired — having a tire or tires.
- wasted — not used or in use: waste energy; waste talents.
- weak — not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
- lank — (of plants) unduly long and slender: lank grass; lank, leafless trees.
- wearied — physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired: weary eyes; a weary brain.
- wrinkled — a small furrow or crease in the skin, especially of the face, as from aging or frowning.
- fagged — to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often followed by out): The long climb fagged us out.
- fretted — ornamented or provided with frets: a fretted molding.
- pinched — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
- scraggy — lean or thin; scrawny.
- worn — past participle of wear.
adjective careworn
- burdened — If you are burdened with something, it causes you a lot of worry or hard work.
- oppressed — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
- worn-out — worn or used beyond repair.
- weakened — to make weak or weaker.
- haggard — having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn: the haggard faces of the tired troops.
- beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
- worried — having or characterized by worry; concerned; anxious: Their worried parents called the police.