Wearish

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈwɪəɹɪʃ/

Origin

Origin uncertain.

Full definition of wearish

Adjective

1. (obsolete) Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
2. (obsolete or dialectal) Sickly, wizened, feeble.
• 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe,
  With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent ….
• 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review Books 2001, p. 16:Democritus, as he is described by Hippocrates and Laertius, was a little wearish old man, very melancholy by nature, averse from company in his latter days, and much given to solitariness ....

Derived terms

• wearishness