Word Meanings - WORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

p. p. of Wear. Worn land, land that has become exhausted by tillage, or which for any reason has lost its fertility.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WORN)

• Effete
• Worn
• exhausted
• barren
• decrepit
• Haggard
• Wild
• wasted
• worn
• attenuated
• wrinkled
• ghastly
• holloweyed
• lean
• gaunt
• Trite
• hackneyed
• stale
• threadbare
• commonplace
• obvious
• familiar
• trivial
• Weary
• Fatigued
• tired
• jaded
• debilitated
• pent
• toil-worn
• faint

Related words: (words related to WORN)

• ATTENUATION
  1. The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation. 2. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases. 3. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution
• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• TIRE
  A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.
• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• STALELY
  1. In a state stale manner. 2. Of old; long since. B. Jonson.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• TIRO
  See TYRO
• WAST
  The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• TIRING-HOUSE
  A tiring-room. Shak.
• JADEITE
  See STONE
• WRINKLY
  Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered. G. Eliot. His old wrinkly face grew quite blown out at last. Carlyle.
• GHASTLY
  gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear, fr. gasten to terrify, AS. 1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• TIRONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
• FAINTLY
  In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERFATIGUE
  Excessive fatigue.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• UNATTIRE
  To divest of attire; to undress.
• SATIRIST
  One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire. The mighty satirist, who . . . had spread through the Whig ranks. Macaulay.
• CULTIROSTRES
  A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.