Definition of Weary

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Definition of Weary

Weary

Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued.

Causing weariness; tiresome.

Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; -- with of before the cause; as, weary of marching, or of confinement; weary of study.

To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling.

To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance.

To harass by anything irksome.

To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking.

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Weary Quotations

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mohandas Gandhi

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William Shakespeare

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luther

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan Poe

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
Charles Spurgeon

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
Eric Hoffer

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
Ralph Marston

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
William Butler Yeats

Weary Translations

weary in Dutch is vervelend
weary in Italian is stracco
weary in Latin is defetiscor (defessus), defessus, ingravesco
weary in Portuguese is cansado

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