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weary

adj · name · verb · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɪə̯ɹi/
  • British, Southern, Standard: /ˈwɪːɹɪj/
  • /ˈwɪɹi/ General American, Canada, mirror–nearer merger
  • California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ˈwɪɚi/ without the mirror–nearer merger
  • US: /ˈwiɹi/ without the mirror–nearer merger
  • Scotland: /ˈwiɾe/
  • Scotland: [ˈwiːɾe]
  • Scotland: /-ɾɪ/
  • Scotland: /-ɾi/
  • New-Zealand: /ˈwiə̯ɹi/
  • /ˈwɛːɹi/ East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
  • rhymes with -ɪəɹi
  • homophone: wary (cheer–chair merger)
  • CMU ARPABET: W IH1 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • A weary traveller knocked at the door.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: drained, weary, bleareyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, bone-tired, bushed, tired out, spent, wrecked, dog-tired, dog-weary, exhausted, fatigued, forfairn, forlagen, forworn, heavyeyed, jaded, languid, enervated, out of gas, played out, run-down, shattered, shot, sleepy, stuffed, tired, washed out, weariful, whacked, whipped, worn, worn out, banjaxed, beat, buggered, busted, dead tired, cream crackered, done, done in, done up, fagged out, fried, fucked, gassed, jiggered, Kerry Packered, knacked, knackered, nadgered, pooped, pooped out, pumped, shagged, shagged out, tuckered, tuckered out, wappened, zonked

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • soldiers weary of marching, or of confinement; I grew weary of studying and left the library.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fed up, sick to the back teeth, annoyed, angry, aggravated, agitated, bothered, exasperated, frustrated, irritable, irritated, irked, peeved, pestered, pissy, ratty, shitty, sore, tired, vexed, bee in one's bonnet, have it in for, hot and bothered, hold a grudge, brassed off, browned off, cheesed off, peed off, pissed off, PO'd, teed off, ticked off

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Expressive of fatigue.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • He gave me a weary smile.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: drawn, haggard, careworn, weary, woeworn

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Causing weariness; tiresome.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: drudgerous, tedious, draining, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, tiresome, tiring, weariful, wearing, wearisome, weary

Antonyms: none provided

5

name

Meaning 5

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

To make or to become weary.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: ambitransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: beleaguer, exhaust, fatigue, fordo, do for, gas out, get down, jade, knock up, poop, run someone ragged, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, weary

Antonyms: none provided

7

adjective satellite

Meaning 7

physically and mentally fatigued

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • `aweary' is archaic

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: aweary

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • We wore ourselves out on this hike

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: indispose

Narrower terms: exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out, overtire, overweary, overfatigue

9

verb

Meaning 9

lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: tire, pall, fatigue, jade

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate

Narrower terms: poop out, peter out, run down, run out, conk out, retire, withdraw

History

Etymology

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”).

Across languages

Translations

128 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: تعبان (taʕbān) — tired, fatigued
  • Azerbaijani: yorğun — tired, fatigued
  • Azerbaijani: yorulmuş — tired, fatigued
  • Bulgarian: изморен (izmoren) — tired, fatigued
  • Czech: unavený — tired, fatigued
  • Czech: vyčerpaný — tired, fatigued
  • Czech: znavený — tired, fatigued
  • Danish: træt — tired, fatigued
  • Danish: udkørt — tired, fatigued
  • Dutch: uitgeput — tired, fatigued
  • Dutch: vermoeid — tired, fatigued
  • Esperanto: laca — tired, fatigued
  • Finnish: väsynyt — tired, fatigued
  • Finnish: lopen uupunut — tired, fatigued
  • French: las — tired, fatigued
  • Galician: laso — tired, fatigued
  • Galician: canso — tired, fatigued
  • Georgian: მოქანცული (mokanculi) — tired, fatigued
  • German: müde — tired, fatigued
  • Greek: κουρασμένος (kourasménos) — tired, fatigued
  • Hanunoo: aburido — tired, fatigued
  • Hebrew: יָגֵעַ (yagéa') — tired, fatigued
  • Hungarian: fáradt — tired, fatigued
  • Hungarian: megviselt — tired, fatigued
  • Icelandic: þreyttur — tired, fatigued
  • Irish: tuirseach — tired, fatigued
  • Irish: atuirseach — tired, fatigued
  • Irish: scítheach — tired, fatigued
  • Italian: annoiato — tired, fatigued
  • Italian: tediato — tired, fatigued
  • Japanese: 疲れた (tsukareta) — tired, fatigued
  • Central Kurdish: ماندو (mandu) — tired, fatigued
  • Latin: fessus — tired, fatigued
  • Latin: dēfessus — tired, fatigued
  • Latin: lassus — tired, fatigued
  • Māori: whakakurutahi — tired, fatigued
  • Māori: kurukuru — tired, fatigued
  • Māori: waea — tired, fatigued
  • Khiamniungan Naga: tâi — tired, fatigued
  • Norwegian Bokmål: trett — tired, fatigued
  • Norwegian Bokmål: trøtt — tired, fatigued
  • Norwegian Bokmål: utkjørt — tired, fatigued
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: trøytt — tired, fatigued
  • Persian: خسته (xaste) — tired, fatigued
  • Plautdietsch: meed — tired, fatigued
  • Plautdietsch: kjnirr — tired, fatigued
  • Polish: zmęczony — tired, fatigued
  • Portuguese: cansado — tired, fatigued
  • Romanian: obosit — tired, fatigued
  • Romanian: ostenit — tired, fatigued
  • Russian: уста́лый (ustályj) — tired, fatigued
  • Russian: утомлённый (utomljónnyj) — tired, fatigued
  • Scottish Gaelic: claoidhte — tired, fatigued
  • Scottish Gaelic: airtnealach — tired, fatigued
  • Spanish: cansado — tired, fatigued
  • Spanish: cansino — tired, fatigued
  • Swedish: trött — tired, fatigued
  • Swedish: sliten — tired, fatigued
  • Thai: เหนื่อย (nʉ̀ai) — tired, fatigued
  • Ottoman Turkish: یورغون (yorgun) — tired, fatigued
  • Czech: znechucený — having one's patience exhausted; sick
  • Czech: otrávený — having one's patience exhausted; sick
  • Czech: mající něčeho dost — having one's patience exhausted; sick
  • Czech: mající něčeho plné zuby — having one's patience exhausted; sick
  • Czech: majicí něčeho po krk — having one's patience exhausted; sick
  • Persian: خسته (xaste) — having one's patience exhausted; sick
  • Polish: znużony — having one's patience exhausted; sick
  • Bulgarian: изморен (izmoren) — expressive of fatigue
  • Czech: utahaný — expressive of fatigue
  • Czech: udřený — expressive of fatigue
  • Danish: træt — expressive of fatigue
  • Finnish: väsynyt — expressive of fatigue
  • French: las — expressive of fatigue
  • German: müde — expressive of fatigue
  • Italian: spossato — expressive of fatigue
  • Japanese: 疲れた (tsukareta) — expressive of fatigue
  • Persian: خسته (xaste) — expressive of fatigue
  • Portuguese: cansado — expressive of fatigue
  • Russian: уста́лый (ustályj) — expressive of fatigue
  • Spanish: cansado — expressive of fatigue
  • Spanish: cansino — expressive of fatigue
  • Swedish: trött — expressive of fatigue
  • Bulgarian: отегчителен (otegčitelen) — tiresome
  • Czech: otravný — tiresome
  • Czech: dotěrný — tiresome
  • Dutch: uitputtend — tiresome
  • Dutch: vermoeiend — tiresome
  • Esperanto: laciga — tiresome
  • Hungarian: fárasztó — tiresome
  • Persian: خستهکننده (xaste-konande) — tiresome
  • Polish: męczący — tiresome
  • Romanian: obositor — tiresome
  • Spanish: cansino — tiresome
  • Bulgarian: изморявам (izmorjavam) — to make weary
  • Czech: otrávit — to make weary
  • Czech: znechutit — to make weary
  • Czech: unavit — to make weary
  • Czech: unavovat — to make weary
  • Danish: trætte — to make weary
  • Dutch: uitputten — to make weary
  • Dutch: vermoeien — to make weary
  • French: lasser — to make weary
  • Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usagljan) — to make weary
  • Irish: traoith — to make weary
  • Irish: tuirsigh — to make weary
  • Italian: annoiare — to make weary
  • Italian: annoiarsi — to make weary
  • Italian: tediare — to make weary
  • Latin: fatīgō — to make weary
  • Māori: kuru — to make weary
  • Māori: whakakuru — to make weary
  • Old English: ǣþryttan — to make weary
  • Old English: þrēotan — to make weary
  • Polish: nużyć — to make weary
  • Polish: znużyć — to make weary
  • Spanish: cansar — to make weary
  • Swedish: trötta — to make weary
  • Swedish: trötta ut — to make weary
  • Bulgarian: изморявам се (izmorjavam se) — to become weary
  • Czech: znechutit se — to become weary
  • Czech: mít něčeho dost — to become weary
  • Czech: unavit se — to become weary
  • Danish: blive træt — to become weary
  • French: se lasser — to become weary
  • Irish: tuirsigh — to become weary
  • Italian: annoiarsi — to become weary
  • Spanish: cansar — to become weary
  • Swedish: tröttna — to become weary
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