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weary adjective & adverb.

A. adjective.
I.
Suffering from loss of strength and need for rest as a result of continued exertion or endurance; tired, fatigued, now esp. intensely so; expressing extreme tiredness or fatigue. OE.
weary Willie [see TIRED Tim] a tramp, a work-shy person.
O. Manning The weary faces of other passengers. I. Murdoch We are both weary, we have not the energy for real communication.
Depressed, dispirited. (Foll. by of, with.) OE.
Shakespeare Macbeth So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune.
Dismayed at the continued presence or recurrence of a thing; exhausted in patience with. Formerly also foll. by in, to do. ME.
J. B. Priestley She was weary of stopping to ask the way. A. P. Herbert Weary we are of blood and noise and pain.
Of a person: frail, sickly. Scot. & dial. LME.
II.
Fatiguing, exhausting. Now passing into sense 6. ME.
R. Kipling Now we have walked a weary way.
Irksome, wearisome, tedious. LME.
A. Uttley So the weary time dragged on.
a. Sad, sorrowful. Scot. & north. E18.
b. Vexatious, irritating. Scot. & north. L18.
b. adverb. Extremely, very. Scot. & dial. OE.
wearily adverb LME.
weariness noun (a) the state or condition of being weary; (b) a thing that produces this, a cause of tiredness or fatigue: OE.
wearyish adjective (rare) wearisome E17-E18.