Haggard vs Weary - What's the difference?
haggard | weary |
Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
* Dryden
Wild or untamed
(dialect, Isle of Mann, Ireland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
(falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.
* 1599 ,
*:No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;
*:I know her spirits are as coy and wild
*:As haggards of the rock.
(falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
(obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A hag.
Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
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*1623 , (William Shakespeare), (As You Like It) , :
*:I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary .
*(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
*:[I] am weary , thinking of your task.
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
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Expressive of fatigue.
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Causing weariness; tiresome.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:weary way
*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
*:There passed a weary time.
To make or to become weary.
* Shakespeare (Julius Caesar )
* Milton
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
As adjectives the difference between haggard and weary
is that haggard is looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition while weary is having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.As a noun haggard
is (dialect|isle of mann|ireland) a stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.As a verb weary is
to make or to become weary.haggard
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
- Pale and haggard faces.
- A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
- The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard .
- a haggard or refractory hawk
Derived terms
* haggardly * haggardnessNoun
(en noun)- "He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard" [http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm]
- A "haggard" is a bird captured as an adult and therefore of unknown age; often, the law prohibits capturing birds of mating age.
Falconry Pro
- I have loved this proud disdainful haggard .
- (Garth)
References
weary
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* wearily * weariness * wearisomeVerb
(en-verb)- So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
- I would not cease / To weary him with my assiduous cries.
- Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.