What's the difference between wearisome and weary?

Wearisome


Definition:

  • (a.) Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His full-time appointment would quell this wearisome rumpus.
  • (2) "They have got a very worrying and rather wearisome future ahead of them, and I just want to ensure that the Union Jack flies over Gibraltar but that that part of Europe starts to function normally."
  • (3) Maintaining control and managing resources for practice can be time consuming and wearisome.
  • (4) A particularly troublesome condition is post-herpetic neuralgia that requires a wearisome and often complex treatment.
  • (5) The problem here was not the issue of violence itself, but the wearisome ploughing of the same furrow.
  • (6) Taken together, these two elements--the efforts of staff to conform to funding agency requirements plus their attempts to provide clients with the level of care that they need--require that staff engage in a constant and very wearisome juggling act.
  • (7) Meanwhile, most western media have echoed Israel's claim that its assault is in retaliation for Hamas rocket attacks; the BBC speaks wearisomely of a conflict of "ancient hatreds".
  • (8) It also gives new life to the whole awards circus, which has become monstrously repetitive and wearisomely predictable.
  • (9) Going into the season the expectation was very much a continuation of last seasons upward momentum, but it very quickly became apparent that this was a fantasy and a long wearisome trudge towards survival became the norm - Michael Haller Wycombe Wanderers You could argue that it didn’t go wrong.
  • (10) She claimed to find making political alliances demeaning; her critics found her wearisomely egocentric.
  • (11) Meditating on her abuse-filled past, Ces tries to maintain her body and soul in a wearisome world filled with work, housework, homework and a mother who remains in bed half the time, resenting her for being a bigger victim.
  • (12) She doesn’t consider herself to be materialistic and, in normal circumstances, would not want to leave a job she loves, but the level of needless daily stress has become wearisome and she is constantly aware of lack of morale among her colleagues.
  • (13) Evaluation of potential candidates for cardiac transplantation is a difficult and wearisome process for both physician and patients.
  • (14) You don’t have to oppose the idea of monarchy per se (though you probably do that of a hereditary monarchy) to viscerally loathe the wearisome conflating of two separate things: a society’s honouring of self-sacrifice in war, and uncritical, often mystified monarchist beliefs and associated forms of patriotic feeling.
  • (15) Some of his effects are childish, others ridiculous ... [T]here is nothing more wearisome than the everlasting descriptions, the button-by-button portrayal of the characters, the miniature-like representation of every costume."
  • (16) To be constantly infantalised is both wearisome and irritating, not to mention insulting.
  • (17) Typically, viewers see no more than 20 seconds of the braying, posturing and head-to-head between the prime minister and leader of the opposition – exchanges that will probably have lasted six or seven minutes and will have been wearisomely choreographed to reach a killer soundbite climax.

Weary


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued.
  • (superl.) Causing weariness; tiresome.
  • (superl.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling.
  • (v. t.) To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance.
  • (v. t.) To harass by anything irksome.
  • (v. i.) To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
  • (2) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
  • (3) SUNS 104, TIMBERWOLVES 95 In Phoenix, Grant Hill scored 15 of his season-best 20 points in the second half as Phoenix pulled away to beat weary Minnesota.
  • (4) Ectopic pregnancy on the vaginal portio in a 31-year-old woman weari ng and IUD is reported.
  • (5) The Coalition is appealing to the same change-weary voters with the message that Turnbull is a better bet to deliver economic and political stability and Shorten is untested, uninspiring and a risk.
  • (6) There is also world-weariness about such crackdowns.
  • (7) The now 8th Earl of Lucan has treated such sightings with weary equanimity, once saying: “I get a little tired when former Scotland Yard detectives at the end of their careers get commissions to write books which happen to send them to sunny destinations around the world.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest War weary Syrian refugees plead to cross channel through Eurotunnel at Calais.
  • (9) They are weary of being marginalised and no longer being considered in decisions made by management, so they will support action even if they know that it is not over the real issues.
  • (10) He sighs, though whether this is out of weariness and regret, or impatience at my line of questioning, is difficult to tell.
  • (11) But senior administration officials, with a sense of weary resignation, also called on people to put the leaks into context and insisted they had not done serious damage to US relations.
  • (12) Both sides, wearied by decades of fruitless diplomacy, cautioned that an initial meeting – scheduled for the "next week or so" in Washington, according to Kerry – will not automatically lead to productive negotiations.
  • (13) It’s hard to understand the photo’s power in 1945 to Americans, who were weary of the war and horrified by the incredible number of deaths by servicemen, especially in Asian locations most had never heard of, Buell said.
  • (14) 'I couldn't imagine a worse scenario than not enjoying being Thor, because it's gonna consume a good 10 years of my life' Hemsworth, a gentle giant who seems both grateful and gracious, talks passionately about Thor, with no winking and no weariness.
  • (15) And weary opposition forces don’t like what they are seeing.
  • (16) Journalists and the public roll their eyes as he makes yet another passive-aggressive claim that referees are against him, directors tire of his constant hustling and players perhaps weary of his intensity.
  • (17) Despite the world-weary tone of a brutal review in the New York Times, which suggested that it added nothing new to the "groaning shelf" of homosexual literature, a story with an unashamedly gay protagonist unleashed a storm of protest in a country where sodomy was still illegal.
  • (18) His most celebrated aphorism was his response to a journalist who wondered whether Christian Democrats would ever be weary of wielding power: "Political power wears out only those who haven't got it."
  • (19) Obviously, there are some shops where fidgetty child fingers are more inappropriate than others, and I really am sorry to that off-licence, and I would have paid for the bottle of wine we smashed‚ except the weary young man on the till insisted I didn't have to, with the hardened air of a man who had mopped up a few rivers of glass and alcohol in his time.
  • (20) The final draft of the report from a panel of the world's top climate scientists paints a wild future for a world already weary of weather catastrophes costing billions of dollars.