worn-out

Speech parts

1. worn-out - Adjective

2. worn-out - Verb

3. worn-out - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

worn out

Synonyms

spent exhausted tired worn-out fatigued played out washed-out raddled fagged outworn hackney auld dowdy used old
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Antonyms

new modern strong active chipper sprightly
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Examples

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. Terry Southern

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. James Russell Lowell

Alone! - that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE! Edward Bulwer-Lytton

It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent. Paul A. Baran

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! David R. Brower

[Marxism-Leninism is] a worn-out dress that should be thrown away. Fang Lizhi

Close letter words and terms

worn to shreds worn-down worn-in wornil wornness Wornum