verb
definition
To make or to become weary.
adjective
definition
Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
example
A weary traveller knocked at the door.
definition
Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
example
soldiers weary of marching, or of confinement; I grew weary of studying and left the library.
definition
Expressive of fatigue.
example
He gave me a weary smile.
definition
Causing weariness; tiresome.
Examples of weary in a Sentence
We were all weary of waiting for you.
Finally he looked down at his lap and let out a long weary sigh.
Then again, maybe she was simply weary of listening to it.
This dance has happened more times than a weary historian can count.
Her walk turned into a trot as she pushed her weary body as fast as it would go.
It was a weary and famished, but still a fighting and menacing army.
At last, cold, hungry and weary, we reached our pier.
They were weary of the business, and wished to be done with it.
As it grew darker, I was startled by the honking of geese flying low over the woods, like weary travellers getting in late from Southern lakes, and indulging at last in unrestrained complaint and mutual consolation.
Making his way to the first floor, Jackson noticed he was feeling weary from all this drama, and also a little hungry.
Prince Andrew's eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he seem.
At length the two parties grew weary of this state of revolution, and a regime of conciliation, the fruit of mutual concessions, was established under Clement III.
He looked weary – more so than she had ever seen him.
Several officers, with flushed and weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking.
His principles were welcomed as a return to nature by those who were weary of theoretical disputes.
Through many weary months he never relaxed his hold on Lee's army, and, in spite of repeated.
Only after the public grew weary of this did printers go off in search of completely new books, called novels to mark their newness.
His subjects at length grew weary of the heavy expense of maintaining a large military force on the Belgian frontier and in 1839 the king gave way.
Gradually the allies began to weary of personal service and persuaded the synod to accept a money commutation.
Beside the tomb sits a weary soul, rejoicing neither in the joys of the past nor in the possibilities of the future, but seeking consolation in forgetfulness.
The nation, proud of its pre-eminence and weary of civil war, saw in the king its true representative and the guarantee of its unity and success.
And here's your pay for them! screams the countryman's whistle; timber like long battering-rams going twenty miles an hour against the city's walls, and chairs enough to seat all the weary and heavy-laden that dwell within them.
At last, however, the sea, as if weary of its new toy, threw me back on the shore, and in another instant I was clasped in my teacher's arms.
He seems never weary of saying something about Jesus.
But, with all my love for Shakespeare, it is often weary work to read all the meanings into his lines which critics and commentators have given them.
He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and self-confident.
The nets were still unwashed and they were weary.
Everything about him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife.
He urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but the farther he went the more disorganized they were.
Bagration seemed to say, and, fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and serious expression.
But in the decline of life he reaped the bitter fruits of his lack of self-control, and sank into the grave a weary and brokenhearted old man.
She was blamed for her friendship with the comtesse de Polignac, who loved her only as the dispenser of titles and positions; and when weary of this persistent begging for rewards, she was taxed with her preference for foreigners who asked nothing.
He was indefatigable, in war as in peace, in parading and inspecting; the weary and starving soldiers were forced to turn out amid the marshes of the Dobrudscha as spick and span as on the parade grounds of St Petersburg; but he could do nothing to set order in the confusion of the commissariat, which caused the troops to die like flies of dysentery and scurvy; or to remedy the scandals of the hospitals, which inflicted on the wounded unspeakable sufferings.
Where but in the ark is a weary spirit to find safe repose?
Now Julia Volkova looks slightly weary - she must be tired of hospital wards.
Maybe you're a little weary - well relax by the pool.
Weary as they all were, his indomitable will put fresh life into the whole army.
Throughout the divorce proceedings Warham's position was essentially that of an old and weary man.
Every one was weary of the war, and many felt that it would be unwise to push Napoleon and the French nation to extremes.
Will my weary eyes finally conk out and leave me crashing about the motorway?
The guest was relaxed, his penetrating gaze calm and weary.
He considered going down to the drawing room for a drink, but decided, he too, felt quite weary.
They were weary of a means of pacification which produced endless wars abroad and misery at home.
The motive is often inadequate from the point of view of a European, but to the Malay it is sufficient to make him weary of life and anxious to court death.
But towards the end he confesses that he has grown weary of his task, and his history becomes meagre.
The citizens were growing weary of the monastic austerities imposed on them, and Alexander foresaw that his revenge was at hand.
Efforts to make peace, initiated by Pope Innocent VI., came to nothing, though the English commons were now weary of the war.
Talleyrand had long been weary of serving a master whose policy he more and more disapproved, and after the return from Tilsit to Paris he resigned office.
Weary of being trodden.
A fortnight later, however, Charles raised the siege of Stirling, and after a weary though successful march rested his troops at Inverness.