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Wearish vs Weerish - What's the difference?

wearish | weerish |

As adjectives the difference between wearish and weerish

is that wearish is (obsolete) tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid while weerish is .

wearish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) Sickly, wizened, feeble.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
  • *:Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe, / With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent […].
  • *, New York Review Books, 2001, p.16:
  • *:Democritus, as he is described by Hippocrates and Laertius, was a little wearish old man, very melancholy by nature, averse from company in his latter days, and much given to solitariness […].

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    weerish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
    • (Webster 1913)