Weary
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weary¹
- /ˈwɪə̯ɹi/ Australia, UK
- /ˈwɪːɹɪj/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ˈwɪɹi/
- /ˈwɪɚi/ US
- /ˈwiɹi/ US
- /ˈwiɾe/ Scotland
- [ˈwiːɾe] Scotland
- /-ɾɪ/ Scotland
- /-ɾi/ Scotland
- /ˈwiə̯ɹi/ New Zealand
- /ˈwɛːɹi/
Sounds like wary (cheer–chair merger) · Rhymes with -ɪəɹi
Where it comes from
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”), Latvian vārgs (“weak”), Lithuanian vergas (“slave”), Latvian vergs (“slave”).
adjective wearier · weariest
- Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued. A weary traveller knocked at the door.
- 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.
- Expressive of fatigue. He gave me a weary smile.
- Causing weariness; tiresome. And now she was vppon the weary way,
verb wearies · wearying · wearied
- To make or to become weary. So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
Weary²
proper noun Wearys
- A surname. One shot was for the scouts. The next one was for the antitank gunner, whose name was Roland Weary.
