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Worn vs Customary - What's the difference?

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Worn is a related term of customary.


As adjectives the difference between worn and customary

is that worn is damaged and shabby as a result of much use while customary is agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.

As a verb worn

is .

As a noun customary is

a book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.

worn

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • damaged and shabby as a result of much use

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * outworn * worn out

    customary

    English

    Noun

    (customaries)
  • A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
  • *
  • *:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  • Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
  • *1777 , Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland
  • *:The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.

    • Quotations

    * 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 39 *: When two people met for the first time in Diaspar—or even for the hundredth—it was customary to spend an hour or so in an exchange or courtesies before getting down to business, if any.

    Synonyms

    *

    Derived terms

    * customarily

    Related terms

    * consuetude * costumal * costume * custom * customer * customization * customize