weather-beaten

weather-beaten (comparative more weather-beaten, superlative most weather-beaten)

1. Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn or damaged by exposure to the weather or the outdoors, especially to severe weather.

   Alternative form: weatherbeaten

   Synonym: weatherworn

   Near-synonym: weathered

   Farther down the beach they saw a weather-beaten shack and an upturned boat.

   An old man with a weather-beaten face told them that the shack was used seasonally by fishermen.

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:

     Rasmus was a tall, powerful man, with a weather-beaten, furrowed face of a good-natured expression.

   • 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:

     The glass door opened and there entered a thick-set, mud-bespattered, weather-beaten dock laborer with bare head and bare feet.

• “weather-beaten”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.