wearily
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Definition
Adverb: - In a weary manner; with tiredness or fatigue: Indicates performing an action while feeling or showing physical or mental exhaustion, lack of energy, or diminished enthusiasm.
Usage and Examples
- General Use: Describes how an action is performed with weariness.
- She sighed wearily after the long meeting.
- The old man climbed the stairs wearily.
- With Speech: Indicates speaking in a tired tone.
- "I don't know," he answered wearily.
- With Movement or Action: Describes slow, laborious movement due to exhaustion.
- The workers trudged wearily back to the camp at dusk.
Advanced Usage
- Figurative Use: Can describe a manner lacking freshness or vigor, often due to overfamiliarity or repetition.
- The politician repeated his standard promises wearily to the press.
Variants and Related Words
- Weary (Adjective): Feeling or showing tiredness.
- He had a weary expression after the journey.
- Weariness (Noun): The state of being weary; extreme tiredness.
- A deep weariness was evident in her eyes.
- Wearisome (Adjective): Causing one to feel weary; tedious.
- It was a wearisome journey.
Synonyms
- Tiredly: In a tired manner.
- Exhaustedly: In an exhausted manner.
- Fatiguedly: With fatigue.
- Languidly: In a manner lacking energy or vitality.
Antonyms
- Energetically: In a manner showing great energy.
- Vigorously: In a strong, healthy, and forceful way.
- Briskly: In an active, quick, or energetic way.
Adverb
- in a weary manner
- he walked around tiredly