wearing
adjective
[ ˈwɛərɪŋ ]
• mentally or physically tiring.
• "it would be a lot less wearing if we could work together amicably"
Similar:
tiring,
exhausting,
wearying,
fatiguing,
enervating,
draining,
sapping,
stressful,
weary,
crushing,
demanding,
exacting,
taxing,
trying,
challenging,
burdensome,
arduous,
gruelling,
punishing,
grinding,
onerous,
difficult,
hard,
tough,
heavy,
laborious,
back-breaking,
crippling,
strenuous,
rigorous,
uphill,
wear
verb
• have (something) on one's body as clothing, decoration, or protection.
• "he was wearing a dark suit"
Similar:
be dressed in,
be clothed in,
have on,
sport,
dress in,
clothe oneself in,
put on,
don,
• damage, erode, or destroy by friction or use.
• "the track has been worn down in part to bare rock"
Similar:
erode,
abrade,
scour,
scratch,
scrape,
rasp,
rub away,
rub down,
grind away,
fret,
waste away,
wash away,
crumble (away),
wear down,
corrode,
eat away (at),
gnaw away (at),
dissolve,
bite into,
• pass (a period of time) in some activity.
• "spinning long stories, wearing half the day"
• tolerate; accept.
• "the environmental health people wouldn't wear it"
Similar:
allow,
permit,
authorize,
sanction,
condone,
indulge,
agree to,
accede to,
approve of,
endure,
put up with,
bear,
take,
stand,
support,
submit to,
undergo,
accept,
swallow,
tolerate,
brook,
countenance,
admit of,
thole,
stick,
hack,
abide,
stomach,
be doing with,
suffer,
Origin:
Old English werian, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vestis ‘clothing’.
wear
verb
• bring (a ship) about by turning its head away from the wind.
• "Shannon gives the order to wear ship"
Origin:
early 17th century: of unknown origin.
