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

1. in a weary manner
   • he walked around tiredly