weary
/ˈwɪə̯ɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Expressive of fatigue.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "With the lift in the block still out of order, they climbed the flights and flights of steps. When Dad finally put the key in the front door, both were weary beyond words."
- "soldiers weary of marching, or of confinement; I grew weary of studying and left the library."
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”), Latvian vārgs (“weak”), Lithuanian vergas (“slave”), Latvian vergs (“slave”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɪə̯ɹi/
- British English: /ˈwɪə̯ɹi/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
battle-weary
brain weary
dog-weary
drink-weary
no peace for the weary
no rest for the weary
shank-weary
war-weary