adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Australian, Received-Pronunciation:/əˈwɪə̯ɹi/
/əˈwɪɹi/General American, mirror–nearer merger
General-American:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
US:/əˈwɪɚi/without the mirror–nearer merger
US:/əˈwiɹi/without the mirror–nearer merger
Scotland:/əˈwiːɹe/
Scotland:/əˈwiːɹɪ/
Scotland:/əˈwiːɹi/
New-Zealand:/əˈwiə̯ɹi/
/əˈwɛːɹi/East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
rhymes with -ɪəɹi
1
adj
Meaning 1
Weary, tired.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: poetic
Examples
1849+, George Ticknor, History Of Spanish Literature And all his people told him that their horses were aweary, and that they were aweary themselves.
ante 1924 (posthumous, died 1910): Mark Twain, Autobiography I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
adjective satellite
Meaning 2
physically and mentally fatigued
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
`aweary' is archaic
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: weary
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English weary English aweary From a- + weary.
