/ˈwɪə̯ɹi/, /ˈwɪɹi/, /ˈwɪɚi/
OriginFrom Middle English wery, weri, from Old English wēriġ (“weary”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōrīg, *wōrag (“weary”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian wuurich (“weary, tired”), West Frisian wurch (“tired”), Dutch dialectal wurrig (“exhausted”), Old Saxon wōrig (“weary”), Old High German wōrag, wuarag (“drunken”).
- Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
“A weary traveller knocked at the door.”
“I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary.”
“[I] am weary, thinking of your task.”
- Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
“soldiers weary of marching, or of confinement; I grew weary of studying and left the library.”
- Expressive of fatigue.
“He gave me a weary smile.”
- Causing weariness; tiresome.
“And now she was vppon the weary way,”
“There passed a weary time.”
“She had to dance all night without resting till break of day […] Old women supported her in the weary task, and they all danced together, arm in arm.”
- ambitransitiveTo make or to become weary.
“So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,”
“I would not cease / To wearie him with my assiduous cries.”
“His name was Henderland; he spoke with the broad south-country tongue, which I was beginning to weary for the sound of; and besides common countryship, we soon found we had a more particular bond of i”
- A surname.
“One shot was for the scouts. The next one was for the antitank gunner, whose name was Roland Weary.”
Formswearier(comparative) · weariest(superlative) · wearies(present, singular, third-person) · wearying(participle, present) · wearied(participle, past) · wearied(past) · Wearys(plural)