Definitions for weary

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weary wea·ry

Spelling: [weer-ee]

IPA: /ˈwɪər i/

Weary is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in weary (aerwy).

Definitions for weary

adjective

1. physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired:
2. characterized by or causing fatigue:
3. impatient or dissatisfied with something (often followed by of):
4. characterized by or causing impatience or dissatisfaction; tedious; irksome:

verb (used with or without object)

1. to make or become weary; fatigue or tire:
2. to make or grow impatient or dissatisfied with something or at having too much of something (often followed by of):

Origin of weary

before 900; (adj.) Middle English wery, Old English wērig; cognate with Old Saxon -wōrig; akin to Old English wōrian to crumble, break down, totter; (v.) Middle English werien, Old English wē

Examples for weary

More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

weary and restless with vain waiting, they looked from the doorway at the weather.

His weary comment on the crisis sums up the feelings of many of his compatriots.

But peering more closely at the photograph, taken this August, his weary brown eyes reveal a darker truth.

I want to eat when I am hungry, sleep when I am weary, drink—well, any old time.

The happiest of us has been weary of her many a time and oft.

Unwashed and unshaven, he saunters moodily about, weary and dejected.

But the man appears so weary that I decide to skip the dull stuff and get to the heat.

Gays observe hetero-excitement over the lumbersexual with a weary eyeroll.

Each experience—like so many others in her life—left her wounded, weary, adrift.