wizened
/ˈwɪzənd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of wizen
Example Sentences
- ""Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!" exclaimed the housekeeper. . . "If it hadna been that I am mair than half a gentlewoman by my station, I wad hae tried my ten nails in the wizen'd hide o' her!""
- "He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray."
- "In the simple fable about old age reconciling itself to memory and destiny, Mastroianni wears the wizened smile of a man who knows he is visiting his youth for the last time."
- "He’s an old man now, his face wizened and his world limited to a cell in a former convent that serves as one of France’s maximum-security prisons."
Etymology
From wizen + -ed. Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-Germanic *wisnōjaną. Cognate with Icelandic visna.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɪzənd/
- British English: /ˈwɪzənd/
Inflected Forms
more wizened (comparative)
most wizened (superlative)