Adjective: seaworn
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more seaworn |
| Superlative | most seaworn |
Sample Sentences
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With Waltham, and the Bere, that on the Sea-worne shore
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See at the Southerne Iles the Tides at tilt to runne; [1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 2 p. 28:]
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Some of the larger stones are completely angular, including the tallest stone in the structure, but others, including a large capstone of peculiar shape, broken and now repaired with iron rods and molten lead, are obviously seaworn and must have been brought up the hill from sea level […] [1977, Société jersiaise, Annual Bulletin (volume 22, part 1, page 43)]
Adjectives inflected like seaworn
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From sea + worn. According to the Poly-Olbion project coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.