What does aweary mean?
Aweary means (poetic) Weary, tired..
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/əˈwɪə̯ɹi/ · adjective
(poetic) Weary, tired..
1849+, George Ticknor, History Of Spanish Literature And all his people told him that their horses were aweary, and that they were aweary themselves.
ante 1924 (posthumous, died 1910): Mark Twain, Autobiography I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it.
[…] my little body is aweary of this great world.
She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, / I would that I were dead!'
[…]when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil.
The sky leans dumb on the sea, / Aweary with all its wings;
"Nay, save that she seems aweary".
"I am aweary with watching," said Frid. "Praise to Allah the day is ours. Ho, slaves!"
Use aweary when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Aweary means (poetic) Weary, tired..
Common synonyms include weary, tired.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1849+, George Ticknor, History Of Spanish Literature And all his people told him that their horses were aweary, and that they were aweary themselves.
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