weary
Syllables: wea·ryUK/ˈwɪə̯ɹi/
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British/ˈwɪːɹɪj/
weary adjective: having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
Adjective
weary (comparative wearier, superlative weariest)
- 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.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- Synonyms:
- drained, bleareyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, bone-tired, bushed, tired out, spent, wrecked, dog-tired
- 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.
- [Henry Chang:] Could I persuade you to accept my hospitality until such time as you should grow weary of me?
- [Shangai Lily:] I'm weary of you now.1932, Jules Furthman, Shanghai Express
- Synonyms:
- fed up, sick to the back teeth, annoyed, angry, aggravated, agitated, bothered, exasperated, frustrated, irritable
- Expressive of fatigue.
- He gave me a weary smile.
- Causing weariness; tiresome.
- And now she was vppon the weary way,1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39
- There passed a weary time.1797–1798 (date written), [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- drudgerous, tedious, draining, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, tiresome, tiring, weariful
Verb
weary (third-person singular simple present wearies, present participle wearying, simple past and past participle wearied)
- To make or to become weary.
- So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- I would not cease / To wearie him with my assiduous cries.1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
Proper noun capitalized: Weary
Weary (plural Wearys)
- A surname.
- One shot was for the scouts. The next one was for the antitank gunner, whose name was Roland Weary.1969, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., chapter 2 (pages 19–42), in Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, Vintage edition (1991 paperback), London: Vintage Books, published 2000...
weary meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
weary in Hindi
- weary
- थका thakā
weary in Urdu
- weary
- تھکا thakā, ماندہ mānda
weary in Malayalam
- ക്ഷീണിച്ച, അസഹ്യ, ആയാസകര, തളർന്ന
weary in Kannada
- ಬಳಲಿದ, ದಣಿದ, ಉತ್ಸಾಹಗುಂದಿದ, ಬೇಸರಗೊಂಡ, ಬಳಲು, ಆಸರು
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- weary in Sanskrit
- सादयति sādáyati
- weary in Persian
- خسته xaste, خستهکننده xaste-konande
- weary in Thai
- เหนื่อย nʉ̀ai
Examples of weary in a sentence
- There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The...
- When Dad finally put the key in the front door, both were weary beyond words.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
- 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.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 284:
Synonyms of weary
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Forms of weary
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | wearier |
| superlative | weariest |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wearies |
| present participle | wearying |
| past participle | wearied |
| past | wearied |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Wearys |
Origin of weary
From 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”), Latvian vārgs (“weak”), Lithuanian vergas (“slave”), Latvian vergs (“slave”).
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Questions about weary
- What does weary mean?
- Weary means having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
- What is weary in Hindi?
- Weary in Hindi is थका (thakā). See Weary meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use weary in a sentence?
- There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
- What part of speech is weary?
- Weary can be an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce weary?
- Weary is pronounced /ˈwɪə̯ɹi/ (UK).
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Adapted from Wiktionary: weary (page history and authors); Weary (page history and authors); थका (Hindi) (page history and authors); تھکا (Urdu) (page history and authors); weary (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); weary (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); सादयति (Sanskrit) (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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