careworn

adj

Etymology: From care (“sorrow, worry”) + worn.

1. Worn down by cares: showing the signs of long-term stress, tired and haggard due to prolonged worry.

   “The weeks of working hard to look after his sick family left him looking careworn.”

   “At length the long-expected knock was heard. She hurried to the door, and met her husband; a man whose face was care-worn and depressed, though he was young. There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress.”