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Timeworn vs Timework - What's the difference?

timeworn | timework |

As an adjective timeworn

is showing the effects of wear due to long use.

As a noun timework is

work that is paid at a certain rate per unit of time.

timeworn

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • showing the effects of wear due to long use
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • After walking the timeworn horizons out of Africa, I have entered a corrugated maze, a knotted crossroad of the world where landscape is read like sacrament, a labyrinth of echoing faiths called the Middle East.
  • trite or banal; overused or hackneyed

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    timework

    English

    Alternative forms

    *time work *time-work

    Noun

  • Work that is paid at a certain rate per unit of time.

    • Derived terms

    *time-worker, timeworker

    See also

    *piecework