Skip to main content
to wear

to wear

1.0
Have clothes, jewelry, or accessories on your body
  • verb
  • /wɛr/
translation icon : llevar
  • He loves to wear colorful shirts during the summer.
  • wear clothes
  • wear clothing
  • wear a shirt

In Lululemon sports bras, I wear a two to four.

Autoplay Next

Examples

Synonyms

to bear
vsto wear
517 3.5

To have a mark, name, or title

restricts that sense to clothing and accessories on the body
to have on
vsto wear
446 1.0

To wear clothes or accessories

covers clothing or accessories generally rather than just a single item

Antonyms

1.5

To move something or someone away from a place

Idioms

Looking or feeling tired and in poor condition after use

3 7.0

To stay too long as a guest so the host wants you to leave

1 7.0

Stay too long and make people feel annoyed

To be the person who has the most control in a couple or family

To show your feelings openly so other people can see them

1 6.3

To have more jobs and duties than you can handle

Accept a criticism if it applies to you

Phrasal Verbs

93 4.0

An effect or feeling that becomes less strong and then stops

27 4.1

Slowly make a person or thing weaker by repeated pressure

26 2.3

To get damaged or stop working after long use

23 2.1

Dress in black clothes to show you are sad after someone dies

23 4.9

Time passes slowly and feels long

19 2.7

To make a person very tired or a thing stop working by using it too much

To put on a strong hat to protect your head

to wear thin
  • Informal
11 6.2

Lose people's trust or patience over time

To put sunscreen on your skin to protect it from the sun

To put on clothes or a mask to hide who you are

4 4.2

Become faded or damaged from use

2 3.8

To slowly remove material by rubbing or long use

1 5.6

Become thin or damaged from use, like a carpet

to wear thongs
  • Australian
1 7.9

To put on flip-flop sandals that people wear in Australia

to wear round
  • Specialized
9.9

To turn the front of a boat away from the wind so it blows from the other side

to wear ship
  • Specialized
9.9

Turn a sailing boat away from the wind by moving the back through the wind, not the front

Make someone tired over time from too much work or stress

Compounds

17 3.0

Slow damage that happens to things like cars or furniture from normal use over time

Clothes made in standard sizes that are sold in stores

Clothes people wear for sports or exercise and often for comfort

Comfortable casual clothes worn when relaxing or during free time

2.7

Items like gloves or mittens you put on your hands for warmth, protection, and style

Made in standard sizes and sold in stores instead of being made for one person

Cloth that does not need ironing after it is washed

A fabric you can wash and wear without ironing

How Dressed

to bundle up
5 2.4
to wear
1.0
to dress
1.0

Surface Forms

wear infinitive
wearing present participle
wears third person singular
wore past
worn past participle

Etymology

The verb wear originally meant 'to carry' on the body, so to wear a hat or coat is to 'carry' it on you and that is why we say someone 'wears' clothes.