Wearying

Definition: Wearying

Wearying

Adjective

1. Producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing".

Date "wearying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Wearying

Synonyms: exhausting (adj), tiring (adj), wearing (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Weariness	Adjective: wearying; Verb: wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Wearying

English words defined with "wearying": Recreate. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	The danger would have been of my wearying you.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Wearying" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Wearying" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	66.67%	8	124,375
Adjective (general or positive)	33.33%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

Expression using "wearying": exhausting tiring wearing wearying. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "wearying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		уморителен (exacting, exhausting, fatiguing, killing, tiresome, toilsome, wearing, weary), отегчителен (boring, moldy, pesky, pestilent, prolix, prosy, provoking, tiresome, weary). (various references)

Chinese		乏烦 (Wearied). (various references)

Finnish		uuvuttava. (various references)

German		ermüdender (tiring), ermüdend (back breaking, exhausting, fatigueing, fatiguing, irksome, strenuous, tedious, tediously, tireing, tiresome, tiresomely, tiring, wearing, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Italian		affaticamento (tiring out). (various references)

Korean		지치게 함 (Fatiguing). (various references)

Manx		trome (bold, burdensome, close, close oppressive, crippling, crippling burden, deep, deep-drawn, dense, dense of smoke, difficult, emphatic, expectant, expecting, grave, grievous, gruelling, hard, harsh, heavy, heavyweight, high pressure, intense, laborious, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, rough of sea, severe, sledge-hammer, steep, stodgy, substantial, sweated, weighty, with child), tooilleilagh (exacting, fatiguing, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, wearing, wearisome), deinaghtagh (cruel). (various references)

Pig Latin		earyingway

Russian		утомительный (exhausting, fatiguing, irksome, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, weariful, wearing, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Ukranian		стомлюючий (wearisome), нудний (arid, barren, dead alive, depressing, heartbreaking, humdrum, insipid, irksome, long winded, matter of fact, monotonous, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tedious, weariful, workaday). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "wearying": bewearying, outwearying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Wearying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wearfing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "wearying" (pronounced wē"rēing)
4	-r ē i ng	burying, carrying, dairying, ferrying, marrying, quarrying, remarrying, varying.
3	-ē i ng	accompanying, bullying, copying, cozying, currying, dizzying, embodying, emptying, hurrying, jockeying, jollying, journeying, levying, lobbying, monkeying, muddying, partying, photocopying, pitying, rallying, readying, remedying, scurrying, studying, tallying, taxiing, worrying.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-r-w-y"
	-1 letter: wearing.
	-2 letters: anergy, aweing, earing, earwig, gainer, gnawer, grainy, raying, reagin, regain, regina, wanier, waring, winery, winger, wrying, yawing, yawner.
	-3 letters: anger, angry, awing, eying, garni, gayer, grain, rainy, range, rangy, rawin, regna, reign, renig, rewan, rewin, wager, waney, weary, wigan, winey, wingy, wrang, wring, yager, yearn.
	-4 letters: aery, ager, agin, airn, airy, anew.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-r-w-y"
	+1 letter: bewraying, lawyering, wearingly.
	+2 letters: bewearying, lawyerings, waveringly.
	+3 letters: outwearying, rewardingly.
	+4 letters: swaggeringly, unwaveringly.
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