travel-stained
1
6.4
Dirty or marked from traveling
- adjective
- /ˈtrævəl steɪnd/
:
manchado de viaje
- The travel-stained backpack showed signs of many adventures and long journeys.
Examples
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His travel-stained jeans had seen better days, but he wore them with pride.
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There were men around her as well—not just Hercules but a handsome young man in a travel-stained tunic with a leather bag slung over his back.
Fiction book (1996) -
After weeks of hiking, my shirt was travel-stained with dirt and sweat.
Synonyms
bedraggled
vstravel-stained
4
7.0
Dirty and untidy, often wet after being in rain or mud
refers to journey-caused marking rather than wet neglect
soiled
vstravel-stained
1
2.5
Not clean because it has mud or grease on it
refers specifically to marks caused by a journey
stained
vstravel-stained
1
2.6
Marked or colored by something that is hard to remove
is about marks made by a journey rather than general dirt marks
travel-soiled
vstravel-stained
7.4
Dirty after a trip
has identical meaning but uses the other phrasing
streaked
vstravel-stained
2.7
Having long thin lines or marks on a surface
describes journey-made marks that are not specifically striped
Antonyms
How Stained
Surface Forms
travel-stained positive
Morphology
Etymology
The word travel-stained comes from the simple words travel ('to go from place to place') and stain ('a mark' or 'to make dirty'), so it describes clothes or faces marked and dirty after a long trip.