weary

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   physically and mentally fatigued

   `aweary' is archaic

2. 2
   adj

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

   A weary traveller knocked at the door.

3. 3
   adj

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

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

4. 4
   adj

   Expressive of fatigue.

   He gave me a weary smile.

5. 5
   adj

   Causing weariness; tiresome.

   And now she was vppon the weary way,

6. 6
   verb

   To make or to become weary.

   So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,

7. 7
   name

   A surname.

   One shot was for the scouts. The next one was for the antitank gunner, whose name was Roland Weary.

8. 8
   verb

   exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

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”).