Synonyms of wearing

wearing 1 of 2

adjective

1

as in crushing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crushing
• grinding
• overwhelming
• agonizing
• painful
• insufferable
• intolerable
• strict
• stringent
• unbearable
• unendurable
• insupportable
• heartbreaking
• wretched
• rigorous
• biting
• hostile
• trying
• heartrending
• uncomfortable
• inclement
• harrowing
• tortuous
• forbidding
• unpleasant
• disagreeable
• wild
• intemperate
• discomforting
• unfriendly
• oppressive
• severe
• bleak
• searing
• austere
• burdensome
• inhospitable
• onerous
• brutal
• heavy
• spartan
• stiff
• tough
• cruel
• inhuman
• bad
• murderous
• grim
• excruciating
• harsh
• comfortless
• hard
• rugged
• hardhanded
• grievous
• bitter
• rough

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• light
• comfortable
• soft
• easy
• luxurious
• cozy
• pleasant
• friendly
• agreeable
• hospitable
• genial
• relaxing
• peaceful
• snug
• moderate
• restful
• mild
• tolerable
• gentle
• bearable
• calm
• temperate
• painless
• balmy
• reposeful
• endurable
• clement

2

as in draining

Synonyms & Similar Words

• draining
• exhausting
• fatiguing
• demoralizing
• debilitating
• discouraging
• palling
• enervating
• grey
• irritating
• gray
• bothersome
• annoying
• disheartening
• ordinary
• dispiriting
• irksome
• pallid
• enfeebling
• sterile
• inanimate
• cumbersome
• longsome
• lumbering
• commonplace
• unsurprising
• pokey
• blank
• vapid
• soggy
• uninspiring
• plodding
• unimaginative
• tepid
• suspenseless
• unrewarding
• dullish
• uneventful
• common
• unexciting
• unexceptional
• prosaic
• pedantic
• earthbound
• unspectacular
• poky
• unnewsworthy
• aseptic
• blah
• barren
• spiritless
• unsensational
• prosy
• undramatic
• pleasureless

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• involving
• interesting
• engaging
• absorbing
• gripping
• surprising
• intriguing
• amazing
• wonderful
• spectacular
• riveting
• astonishing
• moving
• wondrous
• awesome
• sensational
• engrossing
• stirring
• inspiring
• exciting
• stimulating
• marvellous
• amusing
• electrifying
• marvelous
• fabulous
• astounding
• animating
• rousing
• thrilling
• breathtaking
• entertaining
• touching
• exhilarating
• attractive
• energizing
• attracting
• charming
• enchanting
• alluring
• entrancing
• fascinating
• galvanizing
• poignant
• bewitching
• diverting
• enthralling
• beguiling
• invigorating
• enlivening
• rip-roaring
• provocative
• eye-opening
• hair-raising
• captivating
• tantalizing
• arresting
• spellbinding
• suspenseful
• mesmerizing

wearing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of wear

1

as in killing

to use up all the physical energy of

the job of running their own business wears them sometimes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• killing
• tiring
• exhausting
• draining
• busting
• breaking
• harassing
• wasting
• wearying
• wearing out
• knocking out
• burning out
• fagging
• washing out
• outwearing
• doing in
• doing up
• fatiguing
• weakening
• wearing to a frazzle
• tuckering (out)
• sapping
• debilitating
• frazzling
• enervating
• enfeebling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• activating
• strengthening
• energizing
• resting
• invigorating
• relaxing
• rejuvenating
• vitalizing
• unwinding

2

as in eroding

to damage or diminish by continued friction

all that walking every day wore the soles of my shoes very quickly

Synonyms & Similar Words

• eroding
• fraying
• rubbing
• reducing
• eating
• shaving
• chafing
• fretting
• corrading
• biting
• galling
• scraping
• abrading
• erasing
• filing
• sharpening
• chewing
• rasping
• scouring
• grazing
• sandblasting
• wearing out
• scuffing
• gnawing
• nibbling
• decomposing
• wiping (away)
• disintegrating
• grating
• sandpapering
• grinding
• corroding
• frazzling
• dissolving
• honing
• rubbing out
• whetting
• breaking down
• breaking up

3

as in standing

British to put up with (something painful or difficult)

her marriage is so bad—I don't know how she wears it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• standing
• tolerating
• accepting
• taking
• handling
• enduring
• bearing
• sustaining
• supporting
• absorbing
• swallowing
• meeting
• living with
• stomaching
• pocketing
• sticking out
• going
• standing for
• hacking
• abiding
• biding
• countenancing
• lumping (it)
• sweating out
• suffering
• brooking
• toughing it out
• permitting
• allowing
• reconciling (to)
• respecting
• submitting (to)
• yielding (to)
• acquiescing
• consenting (to)
• agreeing (with or to)
• assenting (to)
• capitulating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• refusing
• rejecting
• dismissing
• fighting
• declining
• opposing
• resisting
• repudiating
• combating
• avoiding
• turning down
• missing
• contesting
• combatting
• escaping
• spurning
• evading
• bypassing
• circumventing
• dodging
• eluding
• refraining (from)
• abstaining (from)
• forbearing

Examples of wearing in a Sentence

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Adjective

The force of Burton’s manic personality was very wearing. —Daneet Steffens, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023