wizened

wizened
Synonyms and related words:
Lilliputian, Sanforized, Tom Thumb, adust, anile, atrophied, attenuated, baked, brittle, burnt, cadaverous, consumed, corky, corpselike, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated, doddered, doddering, doddery, dried, dried-up, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, evaporated, exsiccated, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic, haggard, hollow-eyed, incipient, infirm, jejune, marantic, marasmic, meager, midget, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummified, mummylike, nanoid, palsied, papery, papery-skinned, parched, parchmenty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, preshrunk, puny, pygmy, ravaged with age, rickety, rudimental, rudimentary, run to seed, runty, rusty, scorched, scraggy, scrubby, sear, seared, senile, sere, shaky, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, squat, starved, starveling, stricken in years, stunted, sun-dried, sunbaked, tabetic, tabid, thin, timeworn, tottering, tottery, underfed, undernourished, undersize, undersized, wasted, wasted away, weak, weazened, weazeny, wilted, wind-dried, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wraithlike, wrinkled

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Wizened — Wiz ened, a. Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • wizened — meaning ‘thin and shrivelled’, is a Scottish word derived from Old English that has now become a general English word …   Modern English usage

  • wizened — [adj] dried, shriveled up diminished, gnarled, lean, macerated, mummified, old, reduced, shrunk, shrunken, wilted, withered, worn, wrinkled; concepts 485,603 Ant. moist, smooth, unwrinkled …   New thesaurus

  • wizened — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ shrivelled or wrinkled with age. ORIGIN from archaic wizen «shrivel», from Old English …   English terms dictionary

  • wizened — [wiz′ənd] adj. dried up; shriveled; withered …   English World dictionary

  • wizened — /wiz euhnd; wee zeuhnd/, adj. withered; shriveled: a wizened old man; wizened features. [1505 15; WIZEN + ED2] * * * …   Universalium

  • wizened — wiz|ened [ˈwızənd] adj [: Old English; Origin: wisnian to become wizened ] a wizened person, fruit etc is small and thin and has skin with a lot of lines and ↑wrinkles …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • wizened — wiz|ened [ wıznd ] adjective old and with a lot of WRINKLES (=lines) on the skin: a wizened old man a few wizened apples …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • wizened — [[t]wɪ̱z(ə)nd[/t]] ADJ GRADED A wizened person is old and has a lot of lines on their skin. ...a little wizened old fellow with no teeth …   English dictionary

  • wizened — adjective a wizened person, fruit etc is small and thin and has skin with a lot of lines and wrinkles: wizened old Frenchmen playing boules in the square …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • wizened — UK [ˈwɪz(ə)nd] / US adjective old and with a lot of wrinkles (= lines) on the skin a wizened old man a few wizened apples …   English dictionary

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