Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wearish

/ˈwɪəɹɪʃ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: wear-ish
IPA: /ˈwɪəɹɪʃ/

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.

Obsolete

adj

Sickly, wizened, feeble.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe, / With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent […]."
"Democritus, as he is described by Hippocrates and Laertius, was a little wearish old man, very melancholy by nature, averse from company in his latter days, and much given to solitariness […]."

Etymology

From Middle English warssh, werisch, werische, werish, werissh, werssh, werysshe, of unknown origin; compare Modern English dialectal wairsh and Early Modern English wersh; perhaps related to Middle English wery (modern weary).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: warssh

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈwɪəɹɪʃ/

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more wearish (comparative) most wearish (superlative)

Derived Forms

wearishness

Questions

How do you pronounce wearish?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈwɪəɹɪʃ/.
What does wearish mean?: Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
Where does wearish come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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