WEARILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wearily mean? 

• WEARILY (adverb)
  The adverb WEARILY has 1 sense:

1. in a weary manner

  Familiarity information: WEARILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEARILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a weary manner

Synonyms:

tiredly; wearily

Context example:

he walked around tiredly

Pertainym:

weary (physically and mentally fatigued)

 Context examples 

“Dear me, dear me—the postoffice again!” Holmes sighed, wearily.

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

I contented myself with smiling wearily.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Ah, John,” Alleyne answered wearily, it is well for you, but I never thought that my home-coming would be so sad a one.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I fail to understand," said Harker wearily.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She leaned her head wearily against his shoulder, and her body shivered with recurrent nervousness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“I am so tired,” she said, with a quick intake of the breath and a sigh, drooping her head wearily.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I retreated to my own room no more; I took refuge with Peggotty no more; but sat wearily in the parlour day after day, looking forward to night, and bedtime.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The she-wolf was trotting wearily along, her mate well in advance, when she came upon the overhanging, high clay-bank.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I desired that I might pass my life on that barren rock, wearily, it is true, but uninterrupted by any sudden shock of misery.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The carriages were promised, Meg and Mother were all ready to do the honors, Beth was able to help Hannah behind the scenes, Jo had engaged to be as lively and amiable as an absent mind, and aching head, and a very decided disapproval of everybody and everything would allow, and as she wearily dressed, Amy cheered herself with anticipations of the happy moment when, lunch safely over, she should drive away with her friends for an afternoon of artistic delights, for the 'cherry bounce' and the broken bridge were her strong points.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)