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I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.
Gerhard Richter

Meaning of "outworn" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OUTWORN

outworn  [ˈaʊtwɔːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OUTWORN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Outworn is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OUTWORN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

outworn

Wear

In materials science, wear is erosion or sideways displacement of material from its "derivative" and original position on a solid surface performed by the action of another surface. Wear is related to interactions between surfaces and more specifically the removal and deformation of material on a surface as a result of mechanical action of the opposite surface. The need for relative motion between two surfaces and initial mechanical contact between asperities is an important distinction between mechanical wear compared to other processes with similar outcomes. The definition of wear may include loss of dimension from plastic deformation if it is originated at the interface between two sliding surfaces. However, plastic deformation such as yield stress is excluded from the wear definition if it doesn't incorporates a relative sliding motion and contact against another surface despite the possibility for material removal, because it then lacks the relative sliding action of another surface. Impact wear is in reality a short sliding motion where two solid bodies interact at an exceptional short time interval.

Definition of outworn in the English dictionary

The definition of outworn in the dictionary is no longer accepted, used, believed, etc; obsolete or outmoded.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OUTWORN


careworn
ˈkɛəˌwɔːn
foresworn
fɔːˈswɔːn
forewarn
fɔːˈwɔːn
foreworn
fɔːˈwɔːn
forsworn
fɔːˈswɔːn
prewarn
priːˈwɔːn
preworn
priːˈwɔːn
Quorn
kwɔːn
shopworn
ˈʃɒpˌwɔːn
sworn
swɔːn
timeworn
ˈtaɪmˌwɔːn
unworn
ʌnˈwɔːn
warn
wɔːn
Warne
wɔːn
warworn
ˈwɔːˌwɔːn
waterworn
ˈwɔːtəˌwɔːn
wayworn
ˈweɪˌwɔːn
weatherworn
ˈwɛðəˌwɔːn
work-worn
ˈwɜːkˌwɔːn
worn
wɔːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OUTWORN

outwick
outwile
outwin
outwind
outwing
outwish
outwit
outwith
outwitted
outwitting
outwore
outwork
outworker
outworth
outwrest
outwrestle
outwrite
outwritten
outwrote
outwrought

WORDS THAT END LIKE OUTWORN

acorn
born
Capricorn
corn
footworn
forworn
horn
inworn
mansworn
newborn
popcorn
porn
reborn
stubborn
thorn
toilworn
torn
unicorn
unsworn
well-worn

Synonyms and antonyms of outworn in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «OUTWORN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «outworn» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of outworn

Translation of «outworn» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OUTWORN

Find out the translation of outworn to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of outworn from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «outworn» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

陈腐
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

outworn
570 millions of speakers

English

outworn
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

घिसा हुआ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البالية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отжившее
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

outworn
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জরাজীর্ণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

usé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Diganggu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

abgenutzt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

時代遅れの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

노후
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dikalahake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

outworn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நைந்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बाहेर पडलेला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eskimiş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

esausto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przebrzmiały
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

віджиле
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

uzat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τετριμμένος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uitgeput
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

outworn
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

outworn
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about outworn

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QUOTES WITH «OUTWORN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word outworn.
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Gerhard Richter
I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OUTWORN»

Discover the use of outworn in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to outworn and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and ...
Laon reports: To hear, to see, to live, was on that morn Lethean joy! so that all those assembled Cast offtheir memories ofthe past outworn . . . (–) The ambiguity of this triumph can be traced in several figures, for example its ...
Maureen N. McLane, 2000
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The Heathen Anthology
In one of his sonnets Wordsworth looks back wistfully to a less material age, wishing that he could have been born a pagan in what he calls 'a creed outworn'. Even at the time it was obvious that Christianity was the creed that was truly outworn ...
Osred, 2012
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The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem
I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. The imagery of ...
Shira Wolosky, Shira Wolosky Weiss, 2001
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Quantum Religion: The Good News of Rising Consciousness
“[W]hat we are referring to as the dissolution of form may actually be the disintegration of an outworn mode of human consciousness...the destruction of familiar realities and the multiplying of perspectives in our time is caused not by our ...
Sylvester L Steffen, 2011
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The Politics and Aesthetics of "New Negro" Literature
THE. NEGRO. LOOKS. AT. AN. OUTWORN. TRADITION. BY ALICE DUNE A R NELSON THE New Negro — that altogether fascinating and partially mythical creature, conceived by Dr. Alain Locke, and adopted by most of the United States  ...
Cary D. Wintz, 1996
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Stanford Horizons
It uses this shell for a refuge when in danger. What a dead shell of past and outworn traditions, procedures, and courses our universities carry ! Our traditions survive automatically if they are worthy. University and college taboos and habits  ...
Stanford Horizons
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The Historical Jesus
The basic problem is indeed an old one: that of the outworn conceptions in terms of which the message of the New Testament is presented — the symbol, metaphor, myth which is so inextricably linked with the gospel. But new circumstances ...
Craig A. Evans, 2004
8
The Life and Letters of Walter H(ines) Page
Dotheykeep all these outworn things because they are incapable ofchanging anything,or dothese outworn burdens keepthem from becoming able to change anything? I daresayitworks both ways. Every venerable ruin, every outworn custom ...
Burton Jesse Hendrick, 1924
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition
See FRENCH WORDS. outworn. There is, however, a little more in Mr Sonar Law's speech than these husks of a controversy outworn. Allusions like this, shown to be such by the position of outworn, to A pagan suckled in a creed outworn ...
H. W. Fowler, David Crystal, 2009
10
William Blake
The poem is a complaint against the stultifying effects of education : But to go to school in a summer morn O! it drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn. The little ones spend the day. In sighing and dismay. There is no doubt that ...
D. G. Gillham, 1973

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OUTWORN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term outworn is used in the context of the following news items.
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Education: Time for a New Purpose
It is an outworn, unjust way of organising society; does not serve the majority of people – the 99.9%; and is causing far-reaching damage to the ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
2
The million-dollar web gurus driving today's presidential campaigns
... supporters lagged behind by relying on an outworn strategy of canvassing neighborhoods and impersonal email blasts, according to experts. «Christian Science Monitor, Jul 15»
3
“Fantastic Job“ at Fairfax Media in New Zealand
... the Fairfax facility in New Zealand, the GEOMAN press has been re-configured and mechanically checked up, outworn electronics have been removed and an ... «American Printer Magazine, Jul 15»
4
The Mythological Moralities of Planned Parenthood and Caitlyn …
He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily “true” or “false,” but as “academic” or “practical,” “outworn” or “contemporary,” “conventional” or ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
5
manroland Web Systems Completes Fairfax Media Project in New …
... the Fairfax facility in New Zealand, the GEOMAN press has been re-configured and mechanically checked up, outworn electronics have been ... «What They Think, Jul 15»
6
Dzamara - When One Is More Than a Million
Far from a generation that was hidebound, clinging to "outworn ideas", exasperatingly "didactic". Few if any realised he was capsulising a ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
7
Who Should Coach Rafael Nadal?
Toni Nadal has outworn his welcome. He is no longer the man to coach his nephew. If, however unlikely it is, Rafa actually parts ways with his ... «VAVEL.com, Jul 15»
8
If a Marine general can lead the Joint Chiefs of Staff, why not the …
Yet there remains one outworn tradition that has not changed, but should. Though the Marine Corps is an integral part of the Department of the ... «The Hill, Jul 15»
9
My thoughts on Euthanasia
There is a time to fight for more life and a time to let go when we have outworn our no longer usable physical shell, says RUBY LILAOWALA. «Free Press Journal, Jul 15»
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The possibility for a new AK Party in Turkish politics (III)
Instead of the outworn term "public reform," the AK Party needs to aim at state reform by making it clear that the resolution of public issues ... «Daily Sabah, Jul 15»

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