WEARY (wearied, wearier, weariest)

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Irregular inflected forms: wearied    , wearier    , weariest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does weary mean? 

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

1. physically and mentally fatigued

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

• WEARY (verb)
  The verb WEARY has 2 senses:

1. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

2. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

  Familiarity information: WEARY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEARY (adjective)

Comparative: wearier   
Superlative: weariest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Physically and mentally fatigued

Synonyms:

aweary; weary

Context example:

'aweary' is archaic

Similar:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

Derivation:

weariness (temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work)

• WEARY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they weary    ... he / she / it wearies   
Past simple: wearied   
Past participle: wearied   
-ing form: wearying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fag; fag out; fatigue; jade; outwear; tire; tire out; wear; wear down; wear out; wear upon; weary

Context example:

We wore ourselves out on this hike

Hypernyms (to "weary" is one way to...):

indispose (cause to feel unwell)

Cause:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary (lose interest or become bored with something or somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "weary"):

beat; exhaust; tucker; tucker out; wash up (wear out completely)

overfatigue; overtire; overweary (tire excessively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam wants to weary with Sue

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary

Context example:

I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food

Hypernyms (to "weary" is one way to...):

degenerate; deteriorate; devolve; drop (grow worse)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "weary"):

conk out; peter out; poop out; run down; run out (use up all one's strength and energy and stop working)

retire; withdraw (lose interest)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

I was weary and spent, so my progress was not so fast as I wished; but at last I came into regions which I knew.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But it was a weary day for me.

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

I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

As for Buck, wearying of the pursuit, he returned to the desolated camp.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

You sit quietly where I have placed you, and regard me with a weary, passive look.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You must be weary, for you have had a long day.

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

He was very weary, but it refused to die.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I am weary to-night and low in spirits. I cannot but think of Lucy, and how different things might have been.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You may spare me this out of the weary miles that you will journey along.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is true that we can put history-books into their hands, and they can read from them of our weary struggle of two and twenty years with that great and evil man.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)