weary

See also:Wearyandwearþ

English

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishwery,weri,fromOld Englishwēriġ(“weary”),fromProto-West Germanic*wōrīg,*wōrag(“weary”).Cognate withSaterland Frisianwuurich(“weary, tired”),West Frisianwurch(“tired”),Dutchdialectalwurrig(“exhausted”),Old Saxonwōrig(“weary”),Old High Germanwōrag,wuarag(“drunken”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation,General American)IPA^(key):/ˈwɪə̯ɹi/

• Audio(General American):

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• (Scotland)IPA^(key):/ˈwiːɹi/
• Hyphenation:wea‧ry
• Rhymes:-ɪəɹi

Adjective

weary(comparativewearier,superlativeweariest)

1. Havingthestrengthexhaustedbytoilorexertion;tired;fatigued.

   Awearytraveller knocked at the door.

   • c.1598–1600(date written),William Shakespeare,“As You Like It”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene iv]:

     I care not for my spirits if my legs were notweary.

   • 1863,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Weariness:

     [I] amweary,thinking of your task.

   • 1913,Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes,chapter II, inThe Lodger,London:Methuen,→OCLC;republished inNovels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened,New York, N.Y.:Longmans, Green and Co.,[…],[1933],→OCLC,page0091:

     There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger'swearyfeet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

   • 2017,David Walliams[pseudonym; David Edward Williams],Bad Dad,London:HarperCollins Children’s Books,→ISBN:

     With the lift in the block still out of order, they climbed the flights and flights of steps. When Dad finally put the key in the front door, both werewearybeyond words.

2. Havingone'spatience,relish,or contentmentexhausted;tired;sick.

   soldierswearyof marching, or of confinement; I grewwearyof studying and left the library.

3. Expressiveoffatigue.

   He gave me awearysmile.

4. Causing weariness;tiresome.
   • 1596,Edmund Spenser,“Book VI, Canto VII”, inThe Faerie Queene.[…],London:[…][John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC,stanza 39:

     And now she was vppon thewearyway,

   • 1797–1798(date written),[Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”,inLyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems,London:[…]J[ohn]& A[rthur]Arch,[…],published1798,→OCLC:

     There passed awearytime.

   • 1911,James George Frazer,The Golden Bough,volume 9, page284:

     She had to dance all night without resting till break of day[…]Old women supported her in thewearytask, and they all danced together, arm in arm.

Synonyms

• See alsoThesaurus:fatigued

Derived terms

• battle-weary
• brain weary
• dog-weary
• drink-weary
• no peace for the weary
• no rest for the weary
• shank-weary
• war-weary
• wearily
• weariness
• wearisome
• wear weary
• weary out
• world-weary

Translations

tired, fatigued

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic:تعبان(taʕbān)

• Azerbaijani:yorğun(az),yorulmuş
• Bulgarian:изморен(bg)(izmoren)
• Czech:unavený(cs),vyčerpaný(cs),znavený(cs)
• Danish:træt(da),udkørt
• Dutch:uitgeput(nl),vermoeid(nl)
• Esperanto:laca(eo)
• Finnish:väsynyt(fi),lopen uupunut
• French:las(fr)
• Galician:laso,canso
• Georgian:მოქანცული(mokanculi)
• German:müde(de)
• Greek:κουρασμένος(el)(kourasménos)
• Hanunoo:aburido
• Hungarian:fáradt(hu),megviselt(hu)
• Icelandic:þreyttur(is)
• Indonesian:please add this translation if you can
• Irish:tuirseach,atuirseach,scítheach
• Italian:annoiato(it),tediato(it)
• Japanese:Mệt れた(tsukareta)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish:ماندو(mandu)

• Latin:fessus(la),dēfessus,lassus(la)
• Mandarin:^{(pleaseverify)}Mệt mỏi(píjuàn-de)
• Maori:whakakurutahi,kurukuru,waea
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:trett,trøtt(no),utkjørt

  Nynorsk:trøytt

• Ottoman Turkish:یورغون(yorgun)
• Persian:خسته(phát)(xaste)
• Plautdietsch:meed,kjnirr
• Polish:zmęczony(pl)
• Portuguese:cansado(pt)
• Romanian:obosit(ro),ostenit(ro)
• Russian:уста́лый(ru)(ustályj),утомлённый(ru)(utomljónnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic:claoidhte,airtnealach
• Spanish:cansado(es),cansino(es)
• Swedish:trött(sv)
• Thai:เหนื่อย(th)(nʉ̀ai)

having one's patience exhausted; sick

• Czech:znechucený,otrávený,mající něčeho dost,mající něčeho plné zuby,majicí něčeho po krk
• Persian:خسته(phát)(xaste)
• Polish:znużony(pl)

expressive of fatigue

• Bulgarian:изморен(bg)(izmoren)
• Czech:utahaný,udřený
• Danish:træt(da)
• Finnish:väsynyt(fi)
• French:las(fr)
• German:müde(de)
• Italian:spossato(it)
• Japanese:Mệt れた(tsukareta)
• Mandarin:^{(pleaseverify)}Mệt mỏi(píjuàn-de)
• Persian:خسته(phát)(xaste)
• Portuguese:cansado(pt)
• Russian:уста́лый(ru)(ustályj)
• Spanish:cansado(es),cansino(es)
• Swedish:trött(sv)

tiresome

• Bulgarian:отегчителен(bg)(otegčitelen)
• Czech:otravný(cs),dotěrný
• Dutch:uitputtend(nl),vermoeiend(nl)
• Persian:خستهکننده(xaste-konande)
• Polish:męczący(pl)
• Romanian:obositor(ro)
• Spanish:cansino(es)

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic:^{(pleaseverify)}مُرْهَق(murhaq)
• Dutch:^{(pleaseverify)}vermoeid(nl)
• Hungarian:^{(pleaseverify)}fáradt(hu)
• Italian:^{(pleaseverify)}stanco(it)
• Korean:^{(pleaseverify)}지친(jichin)

Verb

weary(third-person singular simple presentwearies,present participlewearying,simple past and past participlewearied)

1. To make or to become weary.

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:tire

   • 1599(first performance),William Shakespeare,“The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene iii]:

     So shall he waste his means,wearyhis soldiers,

   • 1667,John Milton,“Book IX”, inParadise Lost.[…],London:[…][Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC;republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…],London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:

     I would not cease / Toweariehim with my assiduous cries.

   • 1886May 1 – July 31,Robert Louis Stevenson,Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751:[…],London; Paris:Cassell & Company,published1886,→OCLC:

     His name was Henderland; he spoke with the broad south-country tongue, which I was beginning towearyfor the sound of; and besides common countryship, we soon found we had a more particular bond of interest.

   • [1898],J[ohn] Meade Falkner,Moonfleet,London; Toronto, Ont.:Jonathan Cape,published1934,→OCLC:

     Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than furtherwearymyself and bruise my fingers.

Derived terms

• unwearied
• unwearying
• weariedly

Translations

to make weary

• Bulgarian:изморявам(bg)(izmorjavam)
• Czech:otrávit(cs)pf,znechutit(cs)pf,unavit(cs)pf,unavovat(cs)impf
• Danish:trætte(da)
• Dutch:uitputten(nl),vermoeien(nl)
• French:lasser(fr)
• Gothic:𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽(usagljan)
• Irish:traoith,tuirsigh
• Italian:annoiare(it),annoiarsi(it),far scendere il latte alle ginocchia,tediare(it)
• Latin:fatīgō
• Maori:kuru,whakakuru
• Old English:ǣþryttan,þrēotan
• Polish:nużyć(pl)impf,znużyć(pl)pf
• Spanish:cansar(es)
• Swedish:trötta(sv),trötta ut(sv)

to become weary

• Bulgarian:изморявам се(izmorjavam se)
• Czech:znechutit sepf,mít něčeho dost,unavit sepf
• Danish:blivetræt
• French: selasser(fr)
• Irish:tuirsigh
• Italian:annoiarsi(it)
• Spanish:cansar(es)(pronominal)
• Swedish:tröttna(sv)

See also

• wary

Anagrams

• Erway,Wreay