weary

6 definitions • 11 examples

very tired or lacking energy and enthusiasm:

I think he's a little weary after his long journey.

Here, sit down and rest your weary legs.

She looked at me with a weary expression as if to say "This again?"

weary cynicism The new proposals were greeted with weary cynicism.

bored by something because you have experienced too much of it:

grow weary of I've been going out with the same people to the same places for years and I've just grown weary of it.

causing you to feel tired, bored, or annoyed:

The whole sequence of events had a weary familiarity to it.

When the once-unthinkable finally happened, there was a weary inevitability about it.

The end of the film was characterised by cheap shocks and weary predictability.

to make someone feel tired:

Children weary me with their constant questions and demands.

to start to feel that something or someone is boring:

weary of Some people never seem to weary of eating the same type of food every day.

very tired, esp. from hard work:

Even my brain is weary tonight!