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wearily

Syllables: wea·ri·ly/ˈwɪəɹɪli/US/ˈwɪɹɪli/

wearily adverb: in a weary manner; feeling weary.

Adverb

wearily (comparative more wearily, superlative most wearily)

  1. In a weary manner; feeling weary.
    • "Yes," said Marvin. "Wearily I sit here, pain and misery my only companions."1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 137
    • People living in the Portishead area have grown wearily familiar with delays and cost overruns since reopening the railway (part of the MetroWest project) was approved in 2012.2022 November 30, Andrew Mourant, “Network News: Award of DCO offers major boost to Portishead hops”, in RAIL, number 971, page 26
    Synonyms:
    tiredly
  2. In a weary manner; causing weariness.
    Synonyms:
    tiringly

wearily meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

wearily in Tamil

களைப்பாக, களைப்போடு

wearily in Malayalam

പരിക്ഷീണമായി, തളർന്ന്

Examples of wearily in a sentence

  • He trod back and forth wearily.
  • Hazel sank wearily into her chair and sipped the milk unhungrily.
  • Wearily, he cancels the order and orders the ships back into line-ahead formation instead.

All 14 example sentences with wearily

Synonyms of wearily

Forms of wearily

comparativemore wearily
superlativemost wearily

Origin of wearily

From Middle English werily, werelye, equivalent to weary + -ly.

Words that rhyme with wearily

Questions about wearily

What does wearily mean?
Wearily means in a weary manner; feeling weary.
What is wearily in Tamil?
Wearily in Tamil is களைப்பாக, களைப்போடு. See Wearily meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wearily?
Wearily is an adverb.
How do you pronounce wearily?
Wearily is pronounced /ˈwɪɹɪli/ (US).

Words near wearily in the dictionary

  1. wearifully
  2. wearifulness
  3. wearihood
  4. weariless
  5. wearilessly
  6. wearily
  7. wearin'
  8. weariness
  9. wearinesse
  10. wearinesses
  11. wearing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wearily (page history and authors); wearily (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wearily (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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