world weary

Adjective

world-weary (comparative world-wearier, superlative world-weariest)

1. Tired of the ways of the world; feeling apathetic or cynical due to one's life experiences.
   • O here
     Will I ſet vp my euerlaſting reſt:
     And ſhake the yoke of inauſpicious ſtarres
     From this world-wearied fleſh: […][c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

   Synonyms:

   jaded, world-wearied

2. Bored with life.
   • In the cafés of the Boule Miche, where the decadent movements are hatched and the fledgling Verlaines come to drown their sorrows in vermouth, you may see the lacklustre visages and tumbled hair of "diabolical" poets and the world-weary figures of end-of-the-century youngsters pledging their...1894, I[srael] Zangwill, “Paris”, in Without Prejudice, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1896, →OCLC, part II (Here, There, and Somewhere Else: Philosophic Excursions), pages 309–310

   Synonyms:

   apathetic, blasé, jaded, world-wearied, adiaphroistic, apathistical, blithe, deaf, cool, shiftless