What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Wearing vs Wearingly - What's the difference?

wearing | wearingly |

As an adjective wearing

is intended to be worn.

As a noun wearing

is the mechanical process of eroding or grinding.

As a verb wearing

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adverb wearingly is

in a wearing (tiring) manner.

wearing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • intended to be worn
  • * Clothes used to be called wearing apparel
  • causing tiredness
  • * '>citation
  • causing erosion

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
  • The act by which something is worn.
    • formal crown-wearings
  • That which is worn; clothes; garments.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * hard-wearing (or hardwearing, hard wearing)

    wearingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a wearing (tiring) manner
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 8, author=Ben Brantley, title=London’s Musicals: Intimate or Outsize, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Though their leading ladies are of different sexes, “Sister Act” and “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” are remarkably (and wearingly ) similar. }}