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world-weary

[ wurld-weer-ee ]

/ ˈwɜrldˌwɪər i /

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adjective

weary of the world; bored with existence, material pleasures, etc.

Origin of world-weary

First recorded in 1760–70

OTHER WORDS FROM world-weary

world-wea·ri·ness, noun

Words nearby world-weary

world-line, world-renowned, world-shaker, world-shaking, world-view, world-weary, worldbeater, worldline, worldling, worldly, worldly-minded

Example sentences from the Web for world-weary

Or, worse, they are contrived to sound tired, perhaps in an attempt to come off as world-weary.

U2 Generously Gives Us a Lousy Album, Sucks at the Corporate Teat |Hampton Stevens |September 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
It has an old-fashioned, world-weary stoicism that lends a potentially ludicrous story emotional heft.

The Dark Rooms Where Our Secrets Hide |Stefan Beck |February 24, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
McKean looks so fragile and world-weary as he speaks in his Chicago accent, he seems to require rescue.

Broadway's Sweet New Play |Rachel Syme |September 30, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
World-weary, she immediately resolved to accept the invitation.

Josephine |John S. C. Abbott

The world-weary man looks on with wonder, reverencing yet not comprehending.

Folly as It Flies |Fanny Fern
The country cries health and enthusiasm to the world-weary soul as it does to the barefoot boy.

The New Education |Scott Nearing
It is significant that Wagner was as world-weary from middle-age on as was Beethoven.

Beethoven |George Alexander Fischer
The heroines of poems and fictions are complex people to-day, world-weary, tempestuous and without peace of heart or mind.

The Drunkard |Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull

British Dictionary definitions for world-weary

world-weary

adjective

no longer finding pleasure in living; tired of the world

Derived forms of world-weary

world-weariness, noun