The wizened, old sorcerer took me under his wing and taught me everything he knew about magic.
Source: tatoeba (1559992)
Wizened
//ˈwɪzənd//
Synonyms for "wizened" (123 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (37)
Related words (61)
peakypinchedpoorpreshrunkpunypygmyravaged with agericketyrudimentalrudimentaryrun to seedruntyrustysanforizedscorchedscraggyscrubbysearsearedsenile
Show 36 more words
Adjective(5 words)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Translations
34 translations across 16 languages.
Armenian
4 entries- թառամած adj (withered)
- կնճռոտ adj (withered)
- կուչ եկած adj (withered)
- չորացած adj (withered)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 乾癟的 /干瘪的 adj (withered)
- 滿臉皺紋的 /满脸皱纹的 adj (withered)
Czech
3 entries- scvrklý adj (withered)
- seschlý adj (withered)
- vrásčitý adj (withered)
Dutch
3 entries- gekrompen adj (withered)
- ineengekrompen adj (withered)
- verschrompeld adj (withered)
Finnish
2 entries- kuihtunut adj (withered)
- kurttuinen adj (withered)
French
1 entries- ratatiné adj (withered)
German
2 entries- runzelig adj (withered)
- schrumpelig adj (withered)
Ido
1 entries- velkinta adj (withered)
Irish
1 entries- casta adj (withered)
Māori
2 entries- rehe adj (withered)
- rerehe adj (withered)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- innskrumpet adj (withered)
- sammenskrumpet adj (withered)
- vissen adj (withered)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- dennbakich adj (withered)
Portuguese
1 entries- encarquilhado adj (withered)
Spanish
1 entries- enjuto adj (withered)
Turkish
3 entries- buruşuk adj (withered)
- kırışık adj (withered)
- pörsük adj (withered)
Ukrainian
2 entries- висохлий adj (withered)
- зморщений adj (withered)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
An instant afterwards there appeared a little wizened fellow with a cringing manner and a shambling style of walking. He wore an open jacket, with a splotch of tar on the sleeve, a red-and-black check shirt, dungaree trousers, and heavy boots badly worn.
Source: tatoeba (6981714)
I had not been in my study five minutes when the maid entered to say that a person desired to see me. To my astonishment it was none other than my strange old book collector, his sharp, wizened face peering out from a frame of white hair, and his precious volumes, a dozen of them at least, wedged under his right arm.
Source: tatoeba (7432135)
A door suddenly flew open out of what appeared to be solid wall at the end of the corridor, and a little, wizened man darted out of it, like a rabbit out of its burrow.
Source: tatoeba (7483290)
Showing 4 of 8 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.