Difference between Threadbare and Worn

What is the difference between Threadbare and Worn?

Threadbare as an adjective is shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show while Worn as a verb is to carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.

Threadbare

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show wearing clothes of threadbare material banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed

Worn

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.

Example sentence: I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.

We hope you now know whether to use Threadbare or Worn in your sentence.

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