WEATHER-BEATEN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tanned and coarsened from being outdoors

Example:

a weather-beaten face

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

tough; toughened (physically toughened)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Worn by exposure to the weather

Example:

a house of weathered shingles

Synonyms:

weather-beaten; weathered; weatherworn

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

worn (affected by wear; damaged by long use)

Credits

Context examples:

Mr Shepherd hastened to assure him, that Admiral Croft was a very hale, hearty, well-looking man, a little weather-beaten, to be sure, but not much, and quite the gentleman in all his notions and behaviour; not likely to make the smallest difficulty about terms, only wanted a comfortable home, and to get into it as soon as possible; knew he must pay for his convenience; knew what rent a ready-furnished house of that consequence might fetch; should not have been surprised if Sir Walter had asked more; had inquired about the manor; would be glad of the deputation, certainly, but made no great point of it; said he sometimes took out a gun, but never killed; quite the gentleman.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And when I returned, sometimes a good deal tired, and not a little weather-beaten, I never dared complain, because I saw that to murmur would be to vex him: on all occasions fortitude pleased him; the reverse was a special annoyance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My uncle, in his fawn-coloured driving-coat, with all his harness of the same tint, looked the ideal of a Corinthian whip; while Sir John Lade, with his many-caped coat, his white hat, and his rough, weather-beaten face, might have taken his seat with a line of professionals upon any ale-house bench without any one being able to pick him out as one of the wealthiest landowners in England.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My thoughts were back in Sussex, and I was dreaming of the kindly, simple ways of the country, when there came a rat-tat at the knocker, the ring of a hearty voice, and there, in the doorway, was the smiling, weather-beaten face, with the puckered eyelids and the light blue eyes.