bleary

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Ask me."The apprentice gave him a bleary look.

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tired to the point of exhaustion

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bleary gathered in one view.

adjective

tired to the point of exhaustion

adjective

indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bleary.

adjective

tired to the point of exhaustion

See also: blear, bleary-eyed, blear-eyed

adjective

indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes"

See also: blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy

Example sentences

Ask me."The apprentice gave him a bleary look.

The driver was "acting weird", or had "bleary eyes" or "droopy eyelids".

And I didn't realize until later which one it was: it was 20 miles in on a very hot day, and I was rather bleary-eyed by that point.

For one thing, their top programmer might have been able to do something besides fix other people's bleary-eyed bugs.

Until then the bleary eyed all out approach substitutes trying to cover all possibilities.

And the bleary-eyed half-awake giant is swinging his arms around wildly, demolishing everything in reach?

Having my ass in the chair at 9 sharp, tired and bleary and cranky, does nobody any good--especially if waiting a mere hour would result in like 4x the productivity.

You could actually engage with the teams behind every interesting project, and skip past all the usual 2-3 minute bland, boring on-stage pitches from bleary-eyed and brain-drained builders.

My company doesn't have branded T-Shirts?I guess if I tried to do a start-up, it would surely fail as I stare bleary eyed into my drawer of shirts, having just been distracted from the most important idea I've ever had.