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Distraught vs Careworn - What's the difference?

distraught | careworn |

As adjectives the difference between distraught and careworn

is that distraught is deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; distressed while careworn is showing the signs of long-term stresses.

distraught

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; distressed.
    • His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.

    Derived terms

    * distraughtly * distraughtness

    Synonyms

    * distressed * pained

    careworn

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing the signs of long-term stresses.
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  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn , troubled Ellen.