aweary

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
11
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/əˈwɪə̯ɹi/
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/əˈwɪə̯ɹi/ · /əˈwɪɹi/ · /əˈwɪɚi/(US) · /əˈwiɹi/(US) · /əˈwiːɹe/ · /əˈwiːɹɪ/ · /əˈwiːɹi/ · /əˈwiə̯ɹi/ · /əˈwɛːɹi/

Definition of aweary

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (poetic)Weary, tired.
    “[…] my little body is aweary of this great world.”
    “She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, / I would that I were dead!'”
    “1849+, George Ticknor, History Of Spanish Literature And all his people told him that their horses were aweary, and that they were aweary themselves.”
    “[…]when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil.”
    “The sky leans dumb on the sea, / Aweary with all its wings;”

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Etymology

From a- + weary.

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