Crossword clues for weariest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weary \Wea"ry\, a. [Compar. Wearier; superl. Weariest.] [OE. weri, AS. w?rig; akin to OS. w?rig, OHG. wu?rag; of uncertain origin; cf. AS. w?rian to ramble.]
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Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued.
I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary.
--Shak.[I] am weary, thinking of your task.
--Longfellow. Causing weariness; tiresome. ``Weary way.''
--Spenser. ``There passed a weary time.''
--Coleridge.-
Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; -- with of before the cause; as, weary of marching, or of confinement; weary of study.
Syn: Fatigued; tiresome; irksome; wearisome.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: weary)
WordNet
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Usage examples of "weariest".
Chapter Fifteen: The Flight to Emesa Then came the weariest time of waiting the brethren had ever known, or were to know, although at first they did not feel it so long and heavy.
Not a wavelet stirred, And yet we heard The loneliest music of the weariest waves That ever roll.
A pleasure planet unlike any other, where even the weariest of souls could find rest and comfort and contentment.
In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?
My father sets you to the weariest work there is to do, and still you sing.
A man in love is the weariest and most futile thing in all this weary, futile world.
Vainly grasping heavenly things, Wherefore weariest thou thyself With thy vain imaginings?
So, at about two or three in the morning, when my men are at their weariest, you will make a sally.
Though, of course, they, the shop girls, I mean, must be upheld even in their weariest moments by the thought that they are helping on the beautiful impulse of giving!
He had to smile at that, remembering how in the weariest days of his tutoring he had been desperately counting the days until he was released from his books and could move on to the excitement of the survival test.
But on that raw night, amid the damp and the fog, with the anxiety gnawing at my heart, it seemed the saddest, weariest spot in the whole wide world.