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What is "world-weary"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
world-weary
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ world-weary soldiers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Around him, knowing people, people who were born eating this stuff, are conversing in that world-weary but photogenic way.
▪ For who among us is too world-weary to be awake and watching until the small hours of Friday morning?
▪ He's like a latter-day Bogart with a battered and world-weary mix of cynicism and hope.
▪ Inwardly he gave a world-weary smile.
▪ These faces all look lived-in, world-weary even.
▪ These lent a world-weary cast to a face that might otherwise have been babyish.
Wiktionary
world-weary

a. 1 bored with life, especially material comforts. 2 tired of the ways of the world; fashionably despaired.

WordNet
world-weary

adj. tired of the world; "bored with life"; "strolled through the museum with a bored air" [syn: bored]

Usage examples of "world-weary".

Italian while Leonard Colo stood alongside the fireplace, staring into the flames and waxing his hands endlessly with a look of world-weary patience that did not match the cold misery in his heart.

Parks, pleasaunces, gardens, set apart for kings, are the play-grounds of the landless poor in the Old World, and perhaps yield the sweetest joy of privilege to some state-sick ruler, some world-weary princess, some lonely child born to the solitude of sovereignty, as they each look down from their palace windows upon the leisure of overwork taking its little holiday amidst beauty vainly created for the perpetual festival of their empty lives.

In Monique Ellis' The Year Father Christmas Came Catling, a bold burglary at a country inn brings a handsome world-weary Lord to Sarah Forte's doorstep, where he soon finds himself playing Father Christmas to a disarming group of orphans and the enchanting young woman he longs to make his Lady.

There was something so world-weary and disillusioned about Lady Belling ham, though that was not to say that she had lost her natural kindness.

I had been feeling town-worn and world-weary, and my friend had written me saying: "At Elim are twelve wells and seventy palm-trees," and so to Elim I had betaken myself.