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Definitions: Weary

Weary

Adjective

1. Physically and mentally fatigued; "`aweary' is archaic".

Verb

1. Exhaust or tire though overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike".

2. Get tired of something or somebody.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "weary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)


Synonyms: Weary

Synonyms: aweary (adj), fag (v), fag out (v), fatigue (v), jade (v), outwear (v), pall (v), tire (v), tire out (v), wear (v), wear down (v), wear out (v), wear upon (v). (additional references)
Antonym: refresh (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Weary

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dejection

Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen.

Fatigue

Fatiguing; Verb: tiresome, irksome, wearisome; weary, trying.

Fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, harass, exhaust, knock up, wear out, prostrate.

Adjective: fatigued, tired; Verb: weary; drowsy; drooping; Verb: haggard; toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weather-beaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed ; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed, unrestored.

Pain

Uncomfortable, uneasy; ill at ease; in a taking, in a way; disturbed; discontented; out of humor; a; weary.

Plain

Noun: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau. (level); campagna; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla, playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega.

Weariness

Weary, tired; Verb: drowsy; (sleepy); uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life; sick of.

Verb: weary; tire; (fatigue); bore; bore to death, weary to death, tire to death, bore out of one's skull, bore out of one's life, weary out of one's life, tire out of one's life, bore out of all patience, weary out of all patience, wear out one's patience, tire out of all patience; set to sleep, send to sleep; buttonhole.

Harp on the same string; drag its slow length along, drag its weary length along.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Weary

English words defined with "weary": CaretunedDefatigate, Dog-wearyEnnuyeFatigate, footslog, ForwwearyHaginsomniacLife-wearyOutweary, Overtoil, Overwatchpad, plod, profitlesssleepless, slogtiredly, To tire out, To wear weary, To weary out, tramp, trudgeunprofitablewatchful, wearily, Weary Willie. (references)
Specialty definitions using "weary": Acorn, AmphitriteDying SayingsEmbankment, EngineerFogHighland MaryLeah, like nailing jelly to a tree, Lord LovelMACROBIANNicean BarksSatan's Journey to Earth, Sea, ShoreditchUncumberWeather. (references)
Etymologies containing "weary": AwearyDefatigateForwwearylassitudeWearish. (references)

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Modern Usage: Weary

DomainUsage

Screenplays

So shines a good deed in a weary world. (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)

Yeah but his weary shuffling makes my heart smile. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

To right the unrightable wrong To love, pure and chaste from afar To try, when your arms are too weary To reach the unreachable star! (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman)

Though the road may wind, yea, your hearts grow weary, still shall ye follow them, even unto your salvation. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

I am so weary of Gods and Goddesses, I am weary of my fate. (The Mists of Avalon; writing credit: Marion Zimmer Bradley; Gavin Scott)

Lyrics

Whenever I get weary and I've had enough (Babe; performing artist: Styx; writing credit: Dennis DeYoung)

If along the way you are growing weary, you can rest with me until a brighter (Where Are You Going; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

And I raise my weary head (Blaze Of Glory; performing artist: Jon Bon Jovi)

I'm getting weary, unable to ride ("El Paso"; performing artist: Marty Robbins)

We work our bodies weary to stay alive (Satisfied; performing artist: Richard Marx)

Movie/TV Titles

How Weary Went Wooing (1915)

Weary Willie's Rags (1914)

The World Weary Man (1912)

Weary Starts Things in Pumpkinville (1912)

The Rise and Fall of Weary Willie (1911)

Song Titles

Weary Cutters (performing artist: Steeleye Span)

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Commercial Usage: Weary

DomainTitle

Books

  • Calm in My Chaos: Encouragement for a Mom's Weary Soul (reference)

  • Meditations for Weary Parents (reference)

  • The war diaries of Weary Dunlop : Java and the Burma-Thailand railway, 1942-1945 (reference)

  • Troubled Hearts, Weary Faces: Poetic Therapy, a Book of Poems (reference)

  • World Weary Woman: Her Wound and Transformation (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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Photo Album: Weary

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"SP4 Ruediger Richter (Columbus, Georgia), 4th Bn., 503 Inf., 173 Abn Bde (Separate), lifts his battle weary eyes to the heavens, as if to ask why? SGT. Daniel E. Spencer (Bend, Oregon) stares down at their fallen comrade. The day's battle ended, they silently await the helicopter which will evacuate their comrade from the jungle covered hills in Long Khanh Province." By Pfc. L. Paul Epley, 1966.Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer.

Foot weary soldiers, returning from a hike, catch the welcome whiff of dinner.Credit: Library of Congress.

Most any job would be a relief to weary Uncle Joe!.Credit: Library of Congress.

Weary "world" traveling through storm.Credit: Library of Congress.

"All their weary marches done, all their battles fought and won." American dead in the Meuse-Argonne.Credit: Library of Congress.

Weary refugees pour into France.Credit: Library of Congress.

Said Alice: "When they weary, won't the bitter battle cease?".Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Weary

AuthorQuotation

Benjamin Franklin

After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.

Fuller

Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

Hosea Ballou

Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Joaquin Miller

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Leigh Hunt

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

Martin Luther

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Robertson Davies

He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

William C. Bryant

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

William Shakespeare

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Weary

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

And when, being weary of the ill conduct of Samuel's sons, the children of Israel desired a king, like all the nations to judge them, and to go out before them, and to fight their battles, I. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Use in Literature: Weary

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

With a weary sigh, I betook myself to bed.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hester Prynne, meanwhile, kept her place upon the pedestal of shame, with glazed eyes, and an air of weary indifference.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

At night he came in weary and ate his soup without saying a word.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He felt only an ache of soul and body, his whole being, memory, will, understanding, flesh, benumbed and weary.

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

The weary way hath made you melancholy.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

On the other side, after having seen all the curiosities of the island, I was very desirous to leave it, being heartily weary of those people.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Weary

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Iraq

Iraq declared victory in 1988 but actually achieved a weary return to the status quo antebellum. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is abundantly supplied with examples, from Methuselah to Old Parr, but some notable instances of longevity are less well known. A Calabrian peasant named Coloni, born in 1753, lived so long that he had what he considered a glimpse of the dawn of universal peace. Scanavius relates that he knew an archbishop who was so old that he could remember a time when he did not deserve hanging. In 1566 a linen draper of Bristol, England, declared that he had lived five hundred years, and that in all that time he had never told a lie. There are instances of longevity (macrobiosis) in our own country. Senator Chauncey Depew is old enough to know better. The editor of The American, a newspaper in New York City, has a memory that goes back to the time when he was a rascal, but not to the fact. The President of the United States was born so long ago that many of the friends of his youth have risen to high political and military preferment without the assistance of personal merit. The verses following were written by a macrobian: When I was young the world was fair And amiable and sunny. A brightness was in all the air, In all the waters, honey. The jokes were fine and funny, The statesmen honest in their views, And in their lives, as well, And when you heard a bit of news 'Twas true enough to tell. Men were not ranting, shouting, reeking, Nor women "generally speaking." The Summer then was long indeed: It lasted one whole season! The sparkling Winter gave no heed When ordered by Unreason To bring the early peas on. Now, where the dickens is the sense In calling that a year Which does no more than just commence Before the end is near? When I was young the year extended From month to month until it ended. I know not why the world has changed To something dark and dreary, And everything is now arranged To make a fellow weary. The Weather Man -- I fear he Has much to do with it, for, sure, The air is not the same: It chokes you when it is impure, When pure it makes you lame. With windows closed you are asthmatic; Open, neuralgic or sciatic. Well, I suppose this new regime Of dun degeneration Seems eviler than it would seem To a better observation, And has for compensation Some blessings in a deep disguise Which mortal sight has failed To pierce, although to angels' eyes They're visible unveiled. If Age is such a boon, good land! He's costumed by a master hand! Venable Strigg

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Weary

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their 'constitutional' right of amending it or their 'revolutionary' right to dismember or overthrow it.

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Weary

"Weary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Weary" is used about 707 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%7079,466

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Weary

The following table summarizes the usage of "weary" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
WearyLast name40018,864
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Derived & Related Names: Weary

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "weary".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
LiaN/AItalian

Weary

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Weary

Expressions using "weary": become weary drag its weary length along feel weary for two weary hours get weary grow weary grow weary of To wear weary To weary out weary of weary of life Weary Willie. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "weary": weary-looking, weary-minded, weary-sounding, weary-worn.

Ending with "weary": battle-weary, bone-weary, leg-weary, travel-weary, war-weary, world-weary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Weary

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  weary blues

19

  fred weary

15

  weary

14

  blues hughes langston weary

10

  dunlop weary

9

  the weary boy

8

  weary willie

6

  dunlop sir weary

5

  blues by hughes langston weary

5

  dunlop edward sir weary

4

  let rest weary

3

  traveler weary

3

  dunlop edward weary

3

  no rest weary

2

  let lyrics rest weary

2

  child don get t weary

2

  cotton weary

2
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Modern Translations: Weary

Language Translations for "weary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i mërzitshëm (annoying, boring, bothersome, corny, dead alive, depressing, dissatisfactory, dreary, dry, dull, fatiguing, fierce, pesky, plaguesome, pragmatical, slow, tedious, tiresome, weariful, wearisome), i lodhur (all in, aweary, bored, disgusted, fatigued, flagging, forworn, jaded, languorous, rundown, sick, tired, used up, way-worn, worn out), i lëshuar (abandoned, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, funky, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, lax, licentious, limp, loose, nerveless, pendulous, profligate, slack, slatternly, slipshod, wretched), i këputur (all in, beaten, chivied, dead beat, flake out, languid, tired, washed out, washed up, whacked). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful), ‏ممل (boring, dreary, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, monotonous, mundane, ponderous, slow, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome), ‏منهك (dog tired, dogsbody, exhausted, exhausting, grueling, haggard, overfatigued, overstrained, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, tired, tiring, toilsome, toil-worn, worn out), ‏مل (be bored with, be fed up, be sick of), ‏متعب (annoying, arduous, bothersome, burdensome, disturbing, exhaustive, fatiguing, inconvenient, laborious, onerous, strenuous, tired, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, trying, vexing, wearisome), ‏مضجر (annoying, boring, dim, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, pest, ponderous, prosy, slow, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome), ‏مرهق (arduous, burdened, dog tired, exacting, exhausted, exhausting, fatigued, fatiguing, grueling, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressed, oppressive, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, strained, strenuous, stressed, tired, tiring, toil-worn, trying, wearing, wearisome, worn, worn out), ‏حزين (afflicted, cheerless, dejected, depressed, doleful, dolorous, downcast, drear, dreary, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholic, miserable, mournful, pathetic, plaintive, rueful, sad, sore, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, wailful, wistful, woeful), ‏تعب (failure, fatigue, go flat out, grow tired, languishment, languor, lassitude, pan, punish, stress, take trouble, tell on, tire, tiredness, toil, try, tucker, weariness), ‏سأم (boredom, spleen, weariness), ‏سئم (be sick of, jaded, sicken, tire, tired), ‏ضجر (be fed up, bore, bored, boredom, dullness, fed up, give up, importune, irk, plumb, tedium, tire, tiredness, weariness), ‏أضجر, ‏أرهق (beat, break, exhaust, fatigue, gruel, harass, labor, labour, lie, load, overload, overstrain, pump, run down, saddle, soak, squeeze, tax, try, tucker, weigh, weigh down, weight), ‏دال على التعب. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

уморявам се (get tired), уморявам (beat, fatigue, jade, tire), уморителен (exacting, exhausting, fatiguing, killing, tiresome, toilsome, wearing, wearying), копнея (ache, crave, hanker, hunger, languish, long, pant, pine, sigh, yearn, yen), отегчен (bored, tired of, uninterested, world-weary), отегчавам се (get bored), отегчавам (bore, bother, pester, tire, turn off), отегчителен (boring, moldy, pesky, pestilent, prolix, prosy, provoking, tiresome, wearying), жадувам (ache, desire, hanker, hunger, pant, pine, thirst, yearn, yen), изтощен (all in, bushed, down and out, effete, emaciated, enervate, exhausted, gaunt, jaded, limp, perished, played out, prostrate, run down, screwy, shagged out, shot, sick, spent, used up, whacked), изморен (bushed, careworn, exhausted, forworn, tired), досаждам (annoy, chagrin, intrude, persecute, pester, tease, torment, vex), досаден (aggravating, annoying, boring, bothersome, importunate, intrusive, irksome, irritating, lengthy, long winded, monotonous, mundane, obtrusive, officious, pain in the neck, painful, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, plaguesome, plaguy, ponderous, prolix, provoking, tedious, tiresome, tiring, vexatious, weariful, wearisome). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

疲乏 (tired), 疲倦 (tiring, Weariness), 疲勞 (fatigue, wearily, weariness), , (care-worn, distressed, overworked, sick, tired). (various references)

   

Czech

  

znudìný (bored), unavit (do up, exhaust, fatigue, tire, wear out), unavený (jaded, stale, tired), slabý (bad, decrepit, delicate, faint, fainting, feeble, fragile, frail, light, low, slack, tenuous, wan, watery, weak, weakly, weak-minded), omrzet (Pall), nudit se (be bored), malátný (jaded, languid, languorous, lethargic, limp). (various references)

   

Danish

  

medmenneskelig rådgivningsklinik (consultation service for the weary of life). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vervelend (bleak, boring, bothersome, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty, stodgy, tiresome). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

enua (boring). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مانده (Remain, Remainder, Remanence, Stale), کسل شدن , کسل (Exanimate), خسته (Blown, Sear, Spent, Tire), بیزارکردن (Disgust, Loathe, Repel), بیزار (Averse, Loathloth, Tired). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

väsynyt (exhausted, fatigued, languid, tired, tired out), uupunut (exhausted, fatigued, tired, worn out), ikävystyttää (bore), ikävystynyt (bored). (various references)

   

French

  

triste, se lasser, las, fatigué, fatigant (wearisome), ennuyeux (wearisome), ennuyer, en avoir marre, agacer, agaçant, abattu, épuiser (wear out), épuisant (wearing, wearisome), épuisé. (various references)

   

German

  

müde (languid, limp, sleepily, sleepy, tired, tiredly, waery, wearily, worn). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κουράζω (frazzle, jade, tire), κουρασμένοσ (tired, washed out, wearied), στενοχωρώ (chagrin, embarrass, faze, get down, pinch, put out, straiten, trouble, worry), βεβαρυμένοσ, βαρύνομαι, ανιώ (irk), ανιαρόσ (borer, boring, drab, dull, irksome, prosaic, prosaical, prosy, stodgy, tedious, uninteresting, wearisome). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

יגע (exhausted, tired), ליגע (exhaust, tire), להלאות (exhaust, irk, tire, wear out), להתיגע (be tired, slog, tire, travail, worry oneself), להתעיף (become tired, tire), להוגיע (fatique, sap, tire), להה (exhausted, tired), עיף (exhausted, fatigue, jaded, tired, washed out). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kimerült (all in, beaten, beat-up, dead beat, deadbeat, done, drained, effete, exhausted, forworn, impoverished, overwrought, played out, prostrate, spent, tired, to be maxed out, to be zonked out, to feel run down, washed up, worn-out), fáradt (aweary, a-weary, deadbeat, exhaust, exhausted, fatigue, fatigued, feel tired, heavy, jaded, languid, tired, to feel tired, used, worn out), elfáraszt (to fag, to fatigue). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

penat (exhausted, tired), pegal (annoyed, fed up, painful, stiff, weariness), letih, jerih (tired), cape (bore, feed up, tire), capai (achieve, attain, reach, tired). (various references)

   

Italian

  

stanco (exhausted, jaded, overwrought, tired, warn out), stancarsi (tire), stancare (annoy, bore, fag, fag out, fatigue, get tired, jade, overdrive, overexert, override, tire, tire out), stancante (wearisome), lasso (fatigued, interval, lapse, period, tired, unhappy), fiacco (faint, limp, slack, slow, sluggish, weak), annoiato (bored, tired). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

物憂い (languid, listless, melancholy). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ものうい (languid, listless, melancholy). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

피곤한. (various references)

   

Manx

  

skee (fatigued, tired), deinagh (fatiguing, irksome). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earyway

   

Portuguese

  

enfadonho (arid, barren, boring, bothersome, difficult, disagreeable, drab, dull, fastidious, humdrum, insipid, lengthy, monotonous, muzzy, pesky, preachy, prolix, prosy, repetitious, soporific, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, untoward, vapid, vexing, wearisome), cansado (bushed, done, jaded, outworn, played out, strained, tired, washed out, whacked, worn out). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

trudi (drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, sweat, toil, torture), plictisitor (boring, boringly, dead, dreadful, dry, dull, dully, flat, heavy, irksome, jejune, languorous, long winded, long-spun, monotonous, monotonously, pedestrian, pesky, pestersome, pestiferous, repetitious, repetitive, sententious, slow, tedious, tediously, tiresome, trying), plictisi (annoy, bore, bother, discommode, glut, irk, pall upon, pick on, plague, pother, trouble, worry, worry out), plicticos la culme (dull as ink), ostenit (done), osteni (fatigue, tire, toil), obositor (backbreaking, hard, irksome, lingering, operose, painful, restless, strenuous, sweaty, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uphill, wearing, wearisome), obosit (done, faint, faintly, tired, weak, wearily), obosi (fatigue, get tired, tire, try), greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weight, weighty), duce dorul, canoni (tire, toil, torment, torture), a-i se face dor. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

утомленный (aweary, washed out, wayworn, way-worn, wearied), утомительный (exhausting, fatiguing, irksome, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying), потерявший терпение, истомленный (tired). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sgìthich (become weary, fatigue). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

umoran (tired, washed out, weariful), iznuren (deadbeat, jaded, peaked, peaky, run down, worn-down), iscrpljen (dead beat, exhausted, played out, washed out, wasted, work-worn, worn, worn out). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pesado (awkward, boring, bulky, burdensome, cumbersome, difficult, dull, ghastly, grave, hard, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, hulking, importunate, irritating, labored, laboured, lacklustre, leaden, logy, nuisance, objectionable, onerous, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, ponderous, serious, sesquipedalian, slow, soupy, stodgy, unwieldy, valid, weighty), hastiado (blasé, jaded), fatigarse (tire, toil), fatigar (distress, fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, make an effort, overdrive, override, tire, Tucker), fatigado (tired), fastidioso (annoying, bothering, bothersome, fastidious, irksome, irritating, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, troublesome, trying, wearisome), cansarse (Pall, tire), cansar (fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, overdrive, override, Pall, put off, strain, tire, tire out, try, wear down), cansado (chapfallen, deadbeat, dog-sick, doleful, effete, impotent, jaded, outworn, tired, tiresome), aburrir (bore, tire), aburrido (bored, boring, dry, dull, humdrum, prosy, slow, stodgy, tame, tired, tiresome, wearisome), abatido (broken, contemptible, dejected, depressed, despondent, dismal, downcast, downhearted, glum, laid, miserable, mopish). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

trötta (fatigue, tire), trött (fatigued, tired). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yorucu (back breaking, drudging, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, irksome, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, languorous, painful, strenuous, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying, wearing, wearisome, with an effort), yormak (attribute, cream, do in, do up, exhaust, fag, fag out, fatigue, frazzle, knock out, poop, prostrate, strain, take out, task, tax, tire, try, Tucker, tucker out, wear out, wearisome), yorgun (all in, all out, bushed, done, drawn, effete, forworn, jaded, languorous, off, pooped, pooped out, run down, spent, stale, tired, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, wan, washed out, whacked, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle), usanmak (be fed up with, be sickened with, have done with, tire, wearisome, wearisome of), usandırıcı (wearing, wearisome), bitkin (all in, all out, beat, broken down, bushed, dead beat, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, drooping, effete, exhausted, faint, forworn, haggard, jaded, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, run down, spent, stale, tired, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weakly, whacked, wonky, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked), bıktırmak (cloy, crowd, disgust, do to death, give the willies, irk, Pall, pall on, sicken, tire, wearisome), bıktırıcı (disgusting, fulsome, irksome, prosy, sickening, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, wearing, wearisome), bıkmak (be sickened with, be tired of, get bored, get the willies, get tired, have done with, have had a bellyful of, sicken, tire, wearisome, wearisome of), bıkmış (done, fed up with, out of conceit with, sick of, tired of, weary of), bıkkın (blasé, bored, disgusted, sick, tired). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

яadamak (grow weary, tire). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

стомлюватися (fatigue, spend oneself, tire), стомлювати (dull, fag, fatigue, gruel, irk, tire, try, wear), стомлений (all in, all out, aweary, beat, beaten, done, irked, run down, spent, tired, washed out, washed up, whacked, worn out), стомливий (exhausting, fatiguing, irksome, laborious, languorous, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, tucked up, weariful, wearing), нудьгуючий (sick, weariful, yearning), невеселий (mirthless), натруджений, набридати (aggravate, bother, dun, interfere, persecute, tease, tire, worry), набридливий (annoying, bothersome, nagging, pesky, pestilent, wearisome, worrisome), знуджений (bored), зморений (chivied, dog tired, dog-weary, emaciate, emaciated, outspent, overworn). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

rã rời (aweary, toil-worn), ngấy, mệt mỏi (jaded, mondayish, tired, wan, wearied), mệt lử chán, mệt (tired, wearied, wearisome), chán ngắt (dull, dullness, dully, dulness, long-winded, mouldy, pedestrian, prosaic, tedious, wearied). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

lluddedu (tire), diflasu (bore, disgust, surfeit), diffygiol (defective, faint), diffygio (fail, faint), blino (aggrieve, ail, annoy, bore, bother, get tired, tire, trouble, vex), blin (arduous, irritable, peevish, tired). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Weary

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

defatigatus, defessus, defetiscor (defessus), fatigari, fatigati, fatigatis, fatigatus, fatigemini, fatigeris, ingravesco, lassam, lassarentur, lassas, lassata, lassati, lassi, lassis, lasso, lassum, lassus, occidam, occidamus, occidas, occidat, occidatis, occidatur, occide, occidebant, occidebat, occidebatis, occidendi, occidendum, occidendus, occident, occidente, occidentem, occidentis, occidentium, occidentur, occiderant, occiderat, occidere, occiderem, occiderent, occiderentur, occideres, occideret, occideretis, occideretur, occiderimus, occideris, occiderit, occideritis, occidero, occiderunt, occides, occidet, occidetis, occidetur, occidi, occidimus, occidis, occidisse, occidissem, occidissent, occidisses, occidisset, occidisti, occidistis, occidit, occidite, occiditis, occiditque, occidunt, occisa, occisi, occisis, occisorum, occisos, occisum, occisus, taedebit, taedere, taederet, taedet, taeduit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Weary

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 3, Verse 11
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintUie mh oligwrei paideiaV kuriou mhde ekluou up' autou elegcomenoV
Latin405VulgateDisciplinam Domini fili mi ne abicias nec deficias cum ab eo corriperis
Middle English1395WyclifThe discipline of the Lord, my sone, ne caste thou awey; ne faile thou, whan of hym thou art chastisid.
Jacobean English1611King JamesMy son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
Victorian English1833WebsterMy son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
Basic English1964OgdenMy son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training:

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Weary

LanguageProverbs Chapter 3, Verse 11
CebuanoAnak ko, ayaw pagtamaya ang pagcastigo ni Jehova; Ni magsubo ka sa iyang pagbadlong:
CroatianSine moj, ne odbacuj Jahvine opomene i nemoj da ti omrzne njegov ukor.
DanishMin Søn, lad ej hånt om HERRENs Tugt, vær ikke ked af hans Revselse;
DutchMijn zoon! verwerp de tucht des HEEREN niet, en wees niet verdrietig over Zijn kastijding;
FinnishPoikani, älä pidä Herran kuritusta halpana äläkä kyllästy hänen rangaistukseensa;
FrenchMon fils, ne méprise pas la correction de l`Éternel, Et ne t`effraie point de ses châtiments;
GermanMein Kind, verwirf die Zucht des HERRN nicht und sei nicht ungeduldig über seine Strafe.
Haitian CreolePitit mwen, lè Seyè a ap pini ou, pa betize ak sa. Lè l'ap korije ou, pa dekouraje.
HungarianAz Úrnak fenyítését fiam, ne útáld meg, se meg ne únd az õ dorgálását.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariApabila TUHAN menghajar engkau, anakku, terimalah itu sebagai suatu peringatan, dan jangan hatimu kesal terhadap didikan-Nya itu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaHai anakku! janganlah engkau membuang akan pengajaran Tuhan dan jangan engkau menjadi syak akan siksa-Nya;
ItalianFiglio mio, non disprezzare l'istruzione del Signore e non aver a noia la sua esortazione,
MaoriE taku tama, kaua e whakahawea ki ta Ihowa papaki; kei ngakaukore ano koe ina akona e ia:
NorwegianMin sønn! Forakt ikke Herrens tukt og vær ikke utålmodig når han refser dig!
PortugueseFilho meu, não rejeites a disciplina do Senhor, nem te enojes da sua repreensão;   
RumanianFiule, nu dispreyui mustrarea Domnului, wi nu te mkhni de pedepsele Lui.
RussianоБЛБЪБОЙС зПУРПДОС, УЩО НПК, ОЕ ПФЧЕТЗБК, Й ОЕ ФСЗПФЙУШ ПВМЙЮЕОЙЕН еЗП;

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Weary

Derivations

Words beginning with "weary": wearying. (additional references)

Words ending with "weary": aweary, beweary, outweary, overweary, unweary. (additional references)

Words containing "weary": bewearying, outwearying. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Weary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aweary, eary, ewar, eway, feary, Keary, sweary, veary, waery, wairy, warey, Waryn, waury, wealy, weany, weapy, weard, wearn, wearys, webar, wedar, weerry, weery, weirdy, weiry, weiy, weor, werey, werry, wery, wetar, wezaar, wiar, woar, wrear, wreary, yeary. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Weary"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "weary" (pronounced wi"rē)
4w i" r ēwiry.
3-i" r ēbeery, bleary, cheery, deary, dreary, eerie, Leary, leery, teary, theory.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Weary

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-r-w-y"

-1 letter: aery, awry, eyra, ware, wary, wear, yare, year.

-2 letters: are, awe, aye, ear, era, raw, ray, rya, rye, wae, war, way, wry, wye, yar, yaw, yea, yew.

-3 letters: ae, ar, aw, ay, er, re, we, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-r-w-y"
 

+1 letter: aweary, bewray, lawyer, sawyer, swayer, wafery, watery, wavery, yawner, yawper.

 

+2 letters: areaway, beweary, bewrays, eyewear, freeway, haywire, lawyers, raceway, ropeway, sawyers, swayers, trawley, unweary, waggery, wastery, wearily, wireway, wreathy, yawners, yawpers.

 

+3 letters: anywhere, areaways, bewrayed, bewrayer, clayware, driveway, entryway, everyway, eyewater, freeways, greenway, haywires, hereaway, lawyered, lawyerly, outweary, overwary, playwear, raceways, ropeways, routeway, sternway, swannery, tearaway, trawleys, underway, walkyrie, wardenry, waterily, waterway, waxberry, wayfarer, waylayer, weaponry, wearying, wireways, yawmeter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Weary


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 65 61 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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