WEARYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wearying mean? 

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

1. producing exhaustion

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEARYING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Producing exhaustion

Synonyms:

exhausting; tiring; wearing; wearying

Context example:

the visit was especially wearing

Similar:

effortful (requiring great physical effort)

 Context examples 

The danger would have been of my wearying you.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

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

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The light became more and more oppressive to me, and the heat wearying me as I walked, I sought a place where I could receive shade.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My interest in it was so recent and strong, and my mind was so divided between pleasure and regret—pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions—that I was in danger of wearying the reader with personal confidences and private emotions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Delighted with her progress, and fearful of wearying her with too much wisdom at once, Henry suffered the subject to decline, and by an easy transition from a piece of rocky fragment and the withered oak which he had placed near its summit, to oaks in general, to forests, the enclosure of them, waste lands, crown lands and government, he shortly found himself arrived at politics; and from politics, it was an easy step to silence.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Anything more monotonous and wearying could not be imagined, for, even at the most open places, I could not see more than ten or twelve yards, while usually my vision was limited to the back of Lord John's cotton jacket in front of me, and to the yellow wall within a foot of me on either side.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret—pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions—that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I love, with personal confidences, and private emotions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)