wearing

adjective
wĕrʹĭng

Intended to be worn.

Example

“Clothes used to be called wearing apparel.”

Other meanings

Causing tiredness; trying to a person's patience.
Causing erosion.

Related words

hard-wearing

Example sentences

“I need to start wearing scarves again.”
Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0
“The news anchor announced he wasn't wearing any pants.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0
“Were you wearing a helmet?”
Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “wearing” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.