Weary

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪəri

Origin

Old English wēriġ

Full definition of weary

Adjective

1. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.A weary traveller knocked at the door.
• ShakespeareI care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary.
• LongfellowI am weary, thinking of your task.
2. Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.soldiers weary of marching, or of confinementI grew weary of studying and left the library.
3. Expressive of fatigue.He gave me a weary smile.
4. Causing weariness; tiresome.
• Spenserweary way
• ColeridgeThere passed a weary time.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• wearily
• weariness
• wearisome

Verb

1. To make or to become weary.
• ShakespeareSo shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers.
• MiltonI would not cease
  To weary him with my assiduous cries.
• 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• unwearying