weary
adjectifverbecourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈwɪːɹɪj//
- États-Unis//ˈwɪɚi//
- États-Unis//ˈwiɹi//
- Australie//ˈwɪə̯ɹi//
- //ˈwɪɹi//
Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
adjectif
- 1
Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
A weary traveller knocked at the door.
I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary.
[I] am weary, thinking of your task.
There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
- 2
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.
[Henry Chang:] Could I persuade you to accept my hospitality until such time as you should grow weary of me? [Shangai Lily:] I'm weary of you now.
- 3
Expressive of fatigue.
He gave me a weary smile.
- 4
Causing weariness; tiresome.
And now she was vppon the weary way,
There passed a weary time.
She had to dance all night without resting till break of day […] Old women supported her in the weary task, and they all danced together, arm in arm.
Étymologie
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”).
verbe
- 1
To make or to become weary.
So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
I would not cease / To wearie him with my assiduous cries.
His name was Henderland; he spoke with the broad south-country tongue, which I was beginning to weary for the sound of; and besides common countryship, we soon found we had a more particular bond of interest.
Next morning, as I stood motionless and with heavy eyes at the helm—for I had not slept well—I began to weary anxiously for daylight, and peered towards the horizon, where I thought I observed something like a black cloud against the dark sky.
Formes
- comparatif
- wearier
- superlatif
- weariest
- passé
- wearied
- participe passé
- wearied
- participe présent
- wearying
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- wearies
weary · Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
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