weatherworn

English

Etymology

weather +‎ worn

Adjective

weatherworn (comparative more weatherworn, superlative most weatherworn)

  1. Damaged or eroded by the weather.
    • 1915, James Oliver Curwood, The Hunted Woman‎:
      His hair, gray as the underwing of the owl whose note he forged, straggled in uncut disarray from under the drooping rim of a battered and weatherworn hat.
    • 1920, Earl Wayland Bowman, The Ramblin' Kid‎:
      Old Heck said again, his weatherworn features working convulsively, "it's more than a mortal man can endure and stand!"
    • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎:
      A weather-worn Vauxhall thirty landaulette was awaiting us, and bumped us for six or seven miles over by-paths and lanes which, in spite of their natural seclusion, were deeply rutted and showed every sign of heavy traffic.
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