weather-beaten

See also: weatherbeaten

English

Adjective

weather-beaten (comparative more weather-beaten, superlative most weather-beaten)

Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn or damaged by exposure to the weather or the outdoors, especially to severe weather.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:
  Rasmus was a tall, powerful man, with a weather-beaten, furrowed face of a good-natured expression.

Alternative forms

weatherbeaten

Translations

damaged by exposure to the weather

Bulgarian: повреден от атмосферни влияния (povreden ot atmosferni vlijanija)
Greek: ανεμοδαρμένος (el) (anemodarménos)
Hebrew: מֻכֶּה סַעַר‎ m (muke sa'ar)
Hungarian: viharvert (hu)
Japanese: 風雨にさらされた (fūu ni sarasareta)
Maori: hiwi
Persian: باد و باران خورده‎ (bâd-o-bârân xorde)

References

weather-beaten in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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