单词 | wearying |
释义 | wearyingadj. 1. That causes weariness, fatigue, or lassitude. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > causing weariness or exhaustion wearyc1315 soakingc1440 tired1548 moilingc1566 wearisome1593 tiring1594 overtiring1598 tiresome1598 defatigating1634 defatigable1654 fatigable1656 fatiguing1708 fatiguesomea1734 jading1766 fagging1787 wearying1798 exhausting18.. taversome1808 harassing1833 killing1850 trashing1861 trachling1902 1798 R. Bloomfield Spring in Farmer's Boy 62 When Giles with wearying strides From ridge to ridge the ponderous harrow guides. 1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 369 A day in London is more wearying to me than a walk up Scawfell. 1862 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables i. iii. 7 The two old females generally accompanied him, but when the journey was too wearying for them he went alone. 1864 B. Disraeli in W. F. Monypenny & G. E. Buckle Life Disraeli (1916) IV. xii. 405 Lord P., after the division, scrambled up a wearying staircase to the ladies' gallery. 1898 E. Glanville Kloof Bride viii They took up their position and began a wearying watch. 2. That causes tedium or ennui. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious dreicha1300 alangec1330 joylessa1400 tedious1412 wearifulc1454 weary1465 laboriousa1475 tiresome?a1513 irksome1513 wearisome1530 woodena1566 irkful1570 flat1573 leaden1593 barren1600 soaked1600 unlively1608 dulla1616 irking1629 drearisome1633 drear1645 plumbous1651 fatigable1656 dreary1667 uncurious1685 unenlivened1692 blank1726 disinteresting1737 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 1796 F. Burney Camilla V. ix. xi. 216 Cutting short..all the wearying round of explanation. 1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xxv. 175 He was never wearying, and often..amusing. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. ix. 185 Nothing is so wearying to the spirit as talking to those who agree with everything advanced. 1911 W. M. F. Petrie Revol. of Civilisation iii. 59 Roman copies of Greek work, of wearying banality. Derivatives ˈwearyingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in wearisome or tedious manner irksomely1549 tediously1557 leaden-like1574 drearily1579 dully1600 Welshly1629 unlively1641 woodenly1653 stupidly1723 uninterestingly1793 soporifically1807 sloomy1820 wearyingly1829 boringly1840 tiresomely1847 aridly1883 drably1891 stuffily1894 stodgily1904 yawnsomely1908 yawnfully1914 1829 Examiner 325/1 The piece..was wearyingly long. 1902 E. Glyn Refl. Ambrosine 287 You said you were not wearyingly faithful. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasˈwearying ˈwearying n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [noun] > action or fact of causing wearying?c1225 attediation1485 tediation1485 fatigation1535 forwearying1571 tiring1594 harassing1689 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 185 Fondunge is sliddrunge. þurh wergunge beoð bitacned þe unðeawes under slauhðe þebeoð inempned þeruppe. 1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth iv. 25 Hence are those vain wearyings of places & companies together with our selues. < adj.1796 as lemmas |
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