Weary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Physically or mentally fatigued.
  • adj. Expressive of or prompted by fatigue: a weary smile.
  • adj. Having one's interest, forbearance, or indulgence worn out: weary of delays.
  • adj. Causing fatigue; tiresome: a weary wait.
  • v. To make or become weary. See Synonyms at tire1.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. A feeling of being mentally fatigued.
  • adj. Expressive of fatigue.
  • v. To make or to become weary.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued.
  • adj. Causing weariness; tiresome.
  • adj. Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; -- with of before the cause
  • v. To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue.
  • v. To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance.
  • v. To harass by anything irksome.
  • verb-intransitive. To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tired; exhausted by toil or exertion; having the endurance or patience worn out by continuous striving.
  • Impatient of or discontented with the continuance of something painful, exacting, irksome, or distasteful, and willing to be done with it; having ceased to feel pleasure (in something).
  • Causing fatigue; tiresome; irksome: as, a weary journey; a weary life.
  • Feeble; sickly; puny.
  • Synonyms Disgusted, wearisome. See weary, verb
  • To make weary; reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; fatigue; tire: as, to weary one's self with striving.
  • To exhaust the endurance, patience, or resistance of, as by persistence or importunity.
  • To pass wearily.
  • Synonyms Fatigue, Jade, etc. See tire.
  • To become weary, tired, or fatigued.
  • To become impatient or surfeited, as with the continuance of something that is monotonous, irksome, or distasteful.
  • To long; languish: with for before the object.
  • n. A curse: used now only in the phrases Weary fa' you! Weary on you! and the like.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
  • adj. physically and mentally fatigued
  • v. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
  • Equivalent
    tired   
    Verb Form
    wearied    wearies    wearying   
    Cross Reference
    pass    sicken    tired    to weary out    wary   
    Variant
    wearier    weariest    wearied   
    Form
    wearily    wearisome    weariness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    irksome    wearisome    fatigued    tiresome    tired    sick    tire    fatigue    consumption    impairment   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alfieri    Cleary    Erie    Kiri    Leary    beery    bleary    cheery    deary    dreary   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sad    anxious    lonely    unhappy    dull    sick    hopeless    uneasy    matan    brother