 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
weary
adjective: physically and mentally fatigued; "'aweary' is archaic"
[syn: {aweary}]
verb
1: exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress;
"We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: {tire}, {wear
upon}, {tire out}, {wear}, {jade}, {wear out}, {outwear},
{wear down}, {fag out}, {fag}, {fatigue}] [ant: {refresh}]
2: get tired of something or somebody [syn: {tire}, {pall}, {fatigue},
{jade}]
[also: {wearied}, {weariest}, {wearier}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weary \Wea"ry\, adjective [Compar. {Wearier}; superl. {Weariest}.] [OE.
weri, AS. w?rig; akin to OS. w?rig, OHG. wu?rag; of uncertain
origin; cf. AS. w?rian to ramble.]
1. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn
out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired;
fatigued.
I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary.
--Shak.
[I] am weary, thinking of your task. --Longfellow.
2. Causing weariness; tiresome. ''Weary way.'' --Spenser.
''There passed a weary time.'' --Coleridge.
3. Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted;
tired; sick; -- with of before the cause; as, weary of
marching, or of confinement; weary of study.
Syn: Fatigued; tiresome; irksome; wearisome.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weary \Wea"ry\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Wearied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wearying}.]
1. To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance
of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with
labor or traveling.
So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers.
--Shak.
2. To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as
by continuance.
I stay too long by thee; I weary thee. --Shak.
3. To harass by anything irksome.
I would not cease
To weary him with my assiduous cries. --Milton.
{To weary out}, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue.
Syn: To jade; tire; fatigue; fag. See {Jade}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weary \Wea"ry\, verb (used without an object)
To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary
of an undertaking.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
186 Moby Thesaurus words for "weary":
apathetic, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, beat, benumbed,
black, blase, bleak, blow, bored, break down, burden, burn out,
collapse, crack up, crush one, dark, dead, debilitate, debilitated,
disgusted, dismal, dispirited, do in, do up, dopey, dormant,
drag on, drear, drearisome, dreary, droop, drooping, droopy, drop,
drugged, dull, enervate, enervated, enfeebled, exanimate, exhaust,
fag, fag out, fagged, faint, fainting, fatigue, fatigued, fed-up,
feeling faint, flag, flagging, footsore, frazzle, frazzled,
funebrial, funereal, gasp, get tired, give out, gloomy, glut,
go on forever, good and tired, grave, gray, grim, grow weary,
harass, haunt, haunt the memory, heavy, hebetudinous, inanimate,
inert, irk, irked, jade, jaded, knock out, knock up, lackadaisical,
languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, life-weary, lifeless,
listless, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, moribund, numb, obsess,
oppress, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pall, pant,
peter out, phlegmatic, play out, poop, poop out, pooped, prey on,
prostrate, puff, puff and blow, ready to drop, run down, run out,
run ragged, run-down, sagging, sated, satiate, satiated, saturnine,
seedy, sick, sick of, sink, sleepy, slow, sluggish, solemn, somber,
sombrous, somnolent, splenetic, stagnant, stagnating, stultified,
succumb, supine, tire, tire out, tire to death, tired, tired of,
tired of living, tired to death, tired-winged, toilworn, torpid,
triste, tucker, unrefreshed, unrestored, use up, vegetable,
vegetative, wan, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weaken, weakened, wear,
wear down, wear on, wear out, wear upon one, wearied, weariful,
wearisome, weary unto death, weary-footed, weary-laden,
weary-winged, weary-worn, weigh upon, weight down, wheeze, wilt,
wilting, wind, world-weary, worn, worn down, worn-down
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