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worn

UK/wɔːn/

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Australia/woːn/

worn adjective: damaged and shabby as a result of much use. Also the past participle of wear.

Adjective

worn (comparative more worn, superlative most worn)

  1. Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
    • 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
    • In Pisa, where [Galileo] was born, I climbed the worn steps of the tower that has been leaning southward almost from the day it was built in the 13th century.1989 May, John Boslough, “Searching for the Secrets of Gravity”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 567
  2. Worn out; exhausted.
    • 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

Also used as

worn is also the past participle of wear.

worn meaning in Telugu

worn in Telugu

ధరించారు

Examples of worn in a sentence

  • The weather has worn away the inscription, and it is no longer legible.
  • My passion for football has worn off –I'm into into women's volleyball now.
  • Those sweatpants are great for loafing around the house, but they're not meant to be worn out.

All 40 example sentences with worn

Forms of worn

comparativemore worn
superlativemost worn
alternative form (obsolete)worne

Origin of worn

By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.

Words formed from worn

Phrases with worn

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Words that rhyme with worn

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Questions about worn

What does worn mean?
Worn means damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
What is worn in Telugu?
Worn in Telugu is ధరించారు. See Worn meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is worn?
Worn is an adjective.
How do you pronounce worn?
Worn is pronounced /wɔːn/ (UK).

Words near worn in the dictionary

  1. Wormwood Scrubs
  2. wormwoods
  3. wormworld
  4. wormworlds
  5. wormy
  6. worn
  7. worn and torn
  8. worn away
  9. worn down
  10. worn horns
  11. worn in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: worn (page history and authors); worn (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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