Sleepy vs Weary - What's the difference?
sleepy | weary |
Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
* Dryden
Suggesting tiredness.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
Tending to induce sleep; soporific.
Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
* William Shakespeare
Quiet; without bustle or activity.
(informal) The gum that builds up in the eye
* 1964 , Ken Kesey, Sometimes a great notion
* 1991 , Martin Amis, London fields
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 sleepy and weary
is that sleepy is tired; feeling the need for sleep while weary is having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.As a noun sleepy
is (informal) the gum that builds up in the eye.As a verb weary is
to make or to become weary.sleepy
English
(wikipedia sleepy)Adjective
(er)- She wak'd her sleepy crew.
- At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorationsas the tree had recovered from the collision.
- a sleepy drink or potion
- 'Tis not sleepy business; / But must be looked to speedily and strongly.
- a sleepy English village
Synonyms
* tired * See alsoNoun
(-)- "Did he always leave the sleepy in his eyes?" "Never removed it; let it build up in the comers of his eyes over the weeks until it was heavy enough to fall...
- But the nightdress was heavy, the sleepy in her eyes was heavy, her hair (she made a mustache of one of its locks) was heavy and smelled of cigarettes...
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.
