weather-beaten

1. 1.

   tanned and coarsened from being outdoors

   “a weather-beaten face”

   Similartough
2. 2.

   worn by exposure to the weather

   “a house of weathered shingles”

   Synonymsweatherwornweathered

   Similarworn

Questions about weather-beaten

What does weather-beaten mean?

weather-beaten means "tanned and coarsened from being outdoors". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in weather-beaten?

weather-beaten has 6 syllables: we-a-ther--be-a-ten. The stress falls on "be".

What is another word for weather-beaten?

Close synonyms include weatherworn, weathered. 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 weather-beaten a common word?

weather-beaten is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.