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What does "weary" mean?

Weary: Causing weariness; tiresome. "Weary way." Spenser. "There passed a weary time." Coleridge.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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.
  2. 3.To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling. So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers. Shak.
  3. 4.To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance. I stay too long by thee; I weary thee. Shak.
  4. 5.To harass by anything irksome. I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries. Milton. To weary out, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue. See Jade.
  5. 6.To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking.

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