weary

Meanings

Adjective

• Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
• Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
• Expressive of fatigue.
• Causing weariness; tiresome.

Verb

• To make or to become weary.

Origin

• From Middle English wery, weri, from Old English wēriġ, from Proto-Germanic *wōrīgaz, *wōragaz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wuurich, West Frisian wurch, Dutch dialectal wurrig, Old Saxon wōrig, Old High German wōrag, wuarag.