wearifuladj.
/ˈwɪərɪfʊl/ 1.
a. That causes weariness; that tires one's endurance or patience.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious
dreicha1300
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wearifulc1454
weary1465
laboriousa1475
tiresome?a1513
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wearisome1530
woodena1566
irkful1570
flat1573
leaden1593
barren1600
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unlively1608
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unenlivened1692
blank1726
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stupid1748
stagnant1749
trist?1756
vegetable1757
borish1766
uninteresting1769
unenlivening1774
oorie1787
wearying1796
subjectless1803
yawny1805
wearing1811
stuffy1813
sloomy1820
tediousome1823
arid1827
lacklustrous1834
boring1839
featureless1839
slow1840
sodden1853
ennuying1858
dusty1860
cabbagy1861
old1864
mouldy1876
yawnful1878
drab1880
dehydrated1884
interestless1886
jay1889
boresome1895
stodgy1895
stuffy1895
yawnsome1900
sludgy1901
draggy1922
blah1937
nowhere1940
drack1945
stupefactive1970
schleppy1978
wack1986
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > causing weariness or exhaustion > esp. regarding endurance or patience
wearifulc1454
laboriousa1475
wearing1811
c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 15 Maters..which ellis schulde haue be to hem ouyr hard and ouer weriful to be vndirstonde.
1482 Monk of Evesham 82 Yef y schulde..declare synglerly the peynys and tormentys of euery syngler cryme..hit wulde be ouer teduse and weriful to the redder therof.
1591 R. Turnbull Expos. Epist. St. Iames f. 51 That we..with inuincible fortitude and pacience, may finish our wearifull pilgrimage in his feare, religion and seruice.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Weariful, tiresome; giving exercise to patience. Ex. ‘I have had a weariful bout of it.’
1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds i. 8 O that wearyfu' jaunt to Embro' to see the King!
1846 G. S. Faber Lett. Tractarian Secession Popery 194 So proceeds the Professor through ten weariful pages.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. vi. 113 This foreign style of darning..was done stitch by stitch so as exactly to imitate the fabric of the stocking itself; a wearifu' process.
1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. xiii. 210 Visions of dreary wanderings through weariful saloons.
1912 W. S. Blunt Land War in Ireland ix. 339 Twenty weariful Irish miles.
b. of a person. Scottish.
ΚΠ
a1700 Gaberlunzie-Man vii The weirifou' Gaberlunzie-man.
1882 R. L. Stevenson Familiar Stud. Men & Bks. (1888) 299 She was a religious hypochondriac, a very weariful woman.
c. of the weather. Chiefly Scottish.
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1872 J. Payne Songs Life & Death 224 Wearyful winter is gone at last.
1874 R. St. J. Tyrwhitt Our Sketching Club 223 Spite of gray winter and weariful weather.
1894 A. Reid Sangs Heatherland 48 The wearifu' snaw, O, the wearifu' snaw!
2. Full of weariness; utterly fatigued. Of a person: Languid or affecting languor. Of a look, sigh, smile: Exhibiting or expressing weariness.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective]
wearyc825
asadc1306
ateyntc1325
attaintc1325
recrayed1340
methefula1350
for-wearya1375
matea1375
taintc1380
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fortireda1400
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afoundered?a1425
tewedc1440
travailedc1440
wearisomec1460
fatigate1471
defatigatec1487
tired1488
recreant1490
yolden?1507
fulyeit?a1513
traiked?a1513
tavert1535
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fatigated1552
awearya1555
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overtired1567
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done1575
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languishinga1586
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overwearied1592
overworn1592
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ramfeezled1786
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forfoughten1794
worn-up1812
dead1813
out-burnta1821
prostrate1820
dead beat1822
told out1822
bone-tireda1825
traiky1825
overfatigued1834
outwearied1837
done like (a) dinner1838
magged1839
used up1839
tuckered outc1840
drained1855
floored1857
weariful1862
wappered1868
bushed1870
bezzled1875
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tucked up1891
ready (or fit) to drop1892
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stove-up1901
trachled1910
ragged1912
beat up1914
done in1917
whacked1919
washy1922
pooped1928
shattered1930
punchy1932
shagged1932
shot1939
whipped1940
buggered1942
flaked (out)1942
fucked1949
sold-out1958
wiped1958
burnt out1959
wrung out1962
juiced1965
hanging1971
zonked1972
maxed1978
raddled1978
zoned1980
cream crackered1983
1862 M. B. Betham-Edwards John & I III. xiii. 220 He lay still for some time with a weariful smile upon his lips.
1880 G. MacDonald Bk. of Strife 25 And the thought-spirit, weariful and wan,..Sinks moveless.
1880 R. Jefferies Greene Ferne Farm 209 The wearyful women came homeward from the gleaning.
1885 J. Ingelow Sleep of Sigismund 8 His weird is on him to grope in the dark with endless Weariful feet for a goal that shifteth still.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. xiii. 301 Colney cast a weariful look backward.
1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy 9 Lilias sighed the long, weariful sigh of hope deferred.
Derivatives
ˈwearifully adv.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adverb]
wearily1481
out of breath1565
faintingly1576
languishingly1579
tiredly1659
weariedly1681
pantingly1744
exhaustedly1835
droopingly1852
languorously1858
to a frazzle1865
leadenly1879
jadedly1885
wearifully1888
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb]
wearisomely1834
wearifully1888
1888 W. Black In Far Lochaber xxiii The long night passed, slowly and wearifully.
1907 C. G. Harper Rural Nooks 14 The blurred lights of the streets and shops going weirdly and wearifully by.
ˈwearifulness n.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [noun] > quality of being that which causes
wearifulness1838
costingness1901
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > extreme
sickness1779
wearifulness1838
1838 Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 226 I quite dread to hear the subject mentioned, for fear of a quarrel, besides the wearifulness.
1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways I. iv. 92 There was a strange interjection, as to the wearifulness of constantly wandering.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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