scarred

1. 1.

   deeply affected or marked by mental or physical pain or injury

   “Could her scarred mind ever be free of fear?”

   “a face scarred by anxiety”

   “the fire left her arm badly scarred”

   Similarmarked
2. 2.

   blemished by injury or rough wear

   “the scarred piano bench”

   “walls marred by graffiti”

   Synonymsmarred

   Similarblemished

Other forms of scarred

comparative

scarredder·

superlative

scarreddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scarred

What does scarred mean?

scarred means "deeply affected or marked by mental or physical pain or injury". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scarred?

scarred has 1 syllable: scarred. In IPA it is /ˈskɑɹd/.

What is another word for scarred?

Close synonyms include marred. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scarred a common word?

scarred is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with scarred?

1 word rhymes with scarred. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.