Worn Meaning
/wɔːn/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjDamaged and shabby as a result of much use.
adjWorn out; exhausted.
Sentence Examples
The soles of my shoes are worn.
My shoes are worn out.
He wore a pair of worn boots to the garden.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The old, ____ sofa had torn fabric and faded colors from years of use.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old leather boots were quite ____, but he refused to throw them away because they were so several comfortable today.
Word Origin & History
By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Upon this, an unhappy-looking woman, in a sort of mourning, neat, but sadly worn, hid her face behind a meagre bundle, and was heard to sob."
— 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XVIII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
"Preëminently is the Lake District suited for the jaded and worn, who seek in solitude and amidst scenery unmoiled and unsullied by human artifice, refreshment alike of body and spirit."
— 1889, The Wesley Naturalist, volume 2, page 143:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The old, ____ sofa had torn fabric and faded colors from years of use.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old leather boots were quite ____, but he refused to throw them away because they were so several comfortable today.