wearing

1. 1.

   producing exhaustion

   “an exhausting march”

   “the visit was especially wearing”

   Synonymsexhaustingtiringwearying

   Similareffortful

Other forms of wearing

plural

wearings·

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 wearing

What does wearing mean?

wearing means "(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wearing?

wearing has 2 syllables: wear-ing. The stress falls on "wear". In IPA it is /ˈwɛɹɪŋ/.

What is another word for wearing?

Close synonyms include erosion, eroding, eating away, wearing away, wear. 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 wearing a common word?

wearing 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.