Other forms: wearied, wearying
Weary is tired all the way through — in the legs and in the spirit, the kind of tired a single night's sleep will not fix. A nurse at the end of a run of night shifts, a weary sigh when the phone rings again at nine.
It also takes OF, and that sense is about patience rather than sleep: weary of excuses, weary of the same argument, weary of waiting. There is a verb — long meetings weary everyone — and the adverb wearily, which describes how someone sits down at the end of a bad day. Weariness is the noun, and world-weary describes a person nothing surprises any more. One pair to keep apart: weary is tired, wary is cautious. One letter, no connection at all.
1adjectivewearyVery tired, in body and in spirit.~49%
“They arrived weary and soaked to the skin.”
2adjectivefedHaving run out of patience with something that keeps happening.~49%
“Voters are weary of promises about the railways.”
synonyms: fed up, sick of
3verbexhaustTo make someone tired or to exhaust their patience.~2%
“Three flights in two days would weary anyone.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 6 sentences found in the wild and placed 6 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
Also accepted in games: exhausted
Old English wēriġ, 'weary', comes from Proto-West Germanic *wōrīg. Its relatives are worth a look: West Frisian wurch means tired, Latvian vārgs means weak, and Old High German wōrag went off to mean drunken.
Proto-West Germanic
*wōrīg
Old English
wēriġ — weary
Middle English
wery
English, today
weary
Built from
From Middle English wery, weri, from Old English wēriġ (“weary”), from Proto-West Germanic wōrīg, wōrag (“weary”). Cognate with stq 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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA