Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Tired of the world; bored with life: Feeling a sense of fatigue, disillusionment, or lack of interest in life and worldly affairs, often due to long experience or excessive exposure to the world's problems and pleasures.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • After decades in politics, he had become a world-weary man, skeptical of all promises.
  • She answered with a world-weary sigh, as if she had heard the question a thousand times before.
  • The novel's protagonist is a world-weary detective who has seen too much corruption.

Advanced Usage

• "a world-weary attitude": a general demeanor or outlook characterized by cynicism and emotional exhaustion.

  • His world-weary attitude made it difficult for him to share in the enthusiasm of the younger recruits.

• "world-weary wisdom": knowledge or insight that is tinged with fatigue or resignation.

  • She offered some world-weary wisdom about the futility of trying to change the system.

Variants and Related Words

• World-weariness (n): The state or quality of being world-weary.
  • His letters were filled with a profound sense of world-weariness.

Synonyms

• Jaded: Tired, bored, or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having had too much of something.
• Blasé: Unimpressed or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before.
• Cynical: Believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.
• Disillusioned: Disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed.

Antonyms

• Idealistic: Characterized by idealism; unrealistically aiming for perfection.
• Enthusiastic: Having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
• Naive: Showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• "Been there, done that": A colloquial phrase expressing a similar sentiment of boredom or lack of novelty due to prior extensive experience.
  • When they suggested skydiving, he just shrugged with a world-weary look and said, "Been there, done that."

Adjective

1. tired of the world
   • bored with life
   • strolled through the museum with a bored air