'Weary' definitions:
Definition of 'weary'
From: WordNet
adjective
Physically and mentally fatigued; "`aweary' is archaic" [syn: aweary, weary]
verb
Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue] [ant: freshen, refresh, refreshen]
verb
Definition of 'Weary'
From: GCIDE
- Weary \Wea"ry\, a. [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.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued. [1913 Webster]
- I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- [I] am weary, thinking of your task. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Causing weariness; tiresome. "Weary way." --Spenser. "There passed a weary time." --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Fatigued; tiresome; irksome; wearisome. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Weary'
From: GCIDE
- Weary \Wea"ry\, v. i. To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Weary'
From: GCIDE
- Weary \Wea"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wearied; p. pr. & vb. n. Wearying.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance. [1913 Webster]
- I stay too long by thee; I weary thee. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To harass by anything irksome. [1913 Webster]
- I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- To weary out, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To jade; tire; fatigue; fag. See Jade. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'weary'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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