weary

How to use weary in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for weary.

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Less?So be weary when reading and citing those articles.

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Quick take

exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"

Meaning at a glance

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

verb

exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"

verb

lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"

adjective

physically and mentally fatigued; "`aweary' is archaic"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for weary.

verb

exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"

verb

lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"

adjective

physically and mentally fatigued; "`aweary' is archaic"

Example sentences

Less?So be weary when reading and citing those articles.

I'm growing weary of large files with tons of redundant javadoc lines to make some checkstyle/pmd rule happy.

I'm so weary of people pitching the solution to WordPress and then tossing a proprietary cloud hosted thing at me.

If it becomes weary of the old methods used to persuade it to accept a given idea or commodity, its leaders will present their appeals more intelligently.

Myself, I'm becoming weary of turning every inconvenience into some sort of political issue.

I guess I'm just feeling weary of grad-school tropes, but think about this statement with me:"I hope that we will find an effective way of solving the problem of electronic waste, which is growing quickly.

First a little backstory: I "inherited" CollegeACB from the original creators who had grown weary from the moral quandaries of running the service and lacked the time/effort to expand the business.

"After five years of bailouts financed largely by austerity-weary European taxpayers, wealthy nations like Germany and the Netherlands have decreed that from now on when a bank or country fails, it will be bond investors and perhaps even bank depositors who will be forced to pick up a big share of the bill.