WEARIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wearied mean? 

• WEARIED (adjective)
  The adjective WEARIED has 1 sense:

1. exhausted

  Familiarity information: WEARIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEARIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exhausted

Synonyms:

jaded; wearied

Context example:

my father's words had left me jaded and depressed

Similar:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

 Context examples 

It was a comfort to Elizabeth to consider that Jane could not have been wearied by long expectations.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

With a sob he laid his head on my shoulder and cried like a wearied child, whilst he shook with emotion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Wearied from the night of struggle and wreck, all hands were yet asleep, I thought.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But his mind wearied quickly, and he was content to go back to his chair and doze.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But, as years went on, my dear boy would have wearied of his child-wife.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Miss Woodhouse, we all know at times what it is to be wearied in spirits.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Perhaps, sir,” said Fanny, wearied at last into speaking—“perhaps, sir, I thought it was a pity you did not always know yourself as well as you seemed to do at that moment.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“It’s getting on my nerves, this business, Mr. Holmes,” said he, as he sank, like a wearied man, into an armchair.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Often, when wearied by a toilsome march, I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Talking wearied her, faces troubled her, pain claimed her for its own, and her tranquil spirit was sorrowfully perturbed by the ills that vexed her feeble flesh.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)