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wear has 30 distinct synonyms spread across 9 of its 12 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
“He always wears a smile”
have or show an appearance of
“wear one's hair in a certain way”
impairment resulting from long use
“the tires showed uneven wear”
a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for wear come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.