weather-beaten

[weth-er-beet-n]

adjective

1. bearing evidences of wear or damage as a result of exposure to the weather.

2. tanned, hardened, or otherwise affected by exposure to weather.

   a weather-beaten face.

weather-beaten

adjective

1. showing signs of exposure to the weather

2. tanned or hardened by exposure to the weather

Word History and Origins

Origin of weather-beaten¹

First recorded in 1520–30

Example Sentences

The silvery mutton chops peeking out from beneath a weather-beaten train engineer’s cap.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

He hesitated before pointing across the courtroom to a man with a weather-beaten face.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

“I signed my Island deal on this organ here for good luck,” Crockett says, running his fingers along a weather-beaten keyboard.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

After being displaced from their homeland, Silvia and her mother move into the Morningside, a weather-beaten luxury apartment building in “Island City,” a sinking version of New York in the middle of all-out climate collapse.

Read more on New York Times

And ramshackle houses and fences hide behind thickets of weather-beaten manzanita and chapparal.

Read more on Los Angeles Times