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weary

adj
/ˈwɪə̯ɹi/UK/ˈwɪɹi//ˈwɪɚi/US

Etymology

From Middle English wery, weri, from Old English wēriġ (“weary”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōrīg, *wōrag (“weary”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian wuurich (“weary, tired”), West Frisian wurch (“tired”), Dutch dialectal wurrig (“exhausted”), Old Saxon wōrig (“weary”), Old High German wōrag, wuarag (“drunken”).

  1. inherited from *wōrīg✻
  2. inherited from wēriġ — “weary”
  3. inherited from wery

Definitions

  1. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion

    Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.

    • A weary traveller knocked at the door.
    • I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary.
    • [I] am weary, thinking of your task.

  2. Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted

    Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.

    • soldiers weary of marching, or of confinement;  I grew weary of studying and left the library.

  3. Expressive of fatigue.

    • He gave me a weary smile.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Causing weariness

      Causing weariness; tiresome.

      • And now she was vppon the weary way,
      • There passed a weary time.
      • She had to dance all night without resting till break of day […] Old women supported her in the weary task, and they all danced together, arm in arm.

    2. To make or to become weary.

      • So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
      • I would not cease / To wearie him with my assiduous cries.
      • His name was Henderland; he spoke with the broad south-country tongue, which I was beginning to weary for the sound of; and besides common countryship, we soon found we had a more particular bond of interest.

    3. A surname.

      • One shot was for the scouts. The next one was for the antitank gunner, whose name was Roland Weary.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at weary. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01weary02toil03grueling04gruelling05exhaustion06tiredness07tired08tire

A definitional loop anchored at weary. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at weary

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA