wear

1. 1.

   impairment resulting from long use

   “the tires showed uneven wear”

   Broaderdeterioration
2. 2.

   a covering designed to be worn on a person's body

   Synonymsclothingarticle of clothingvesturewearablehabiliment

   Broadercoveringconsumer goods

   Narroweraccessoryapparelarrayattirebeachwearblackbluechangecivilian clothingdrag

   Partswardrobe
3. 3.

   the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment

   “she bought it for everyday wear”

   Synonymswearing

   Broaderact

Other forms of wear

plural

wears·

past tense or participle

wore

past tense or participle

worn

present participle

wearing·

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 wear

What does wear mean?

wear means "be dressed in". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wear?

wear has 1 syllable: wear. In IPA it is /ˈwɛɹ/.

What is another word for wear?

Close synonyms include have on, bear, wear off, wear out, wear down. 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 wear a common word?

wear is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 wear?

25 words rhyme with wear. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.