Weary vs Disquiet - What's the difference?

Weary is a related term of disquiet.

As adjectives the difference between weary and disquiet

is that weary is having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued while disquiet is deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.

As verbs the difference between weary and disquiet

is that weary is to make or to become weary while disquiet is make (someone) worried or anxious.

As a noun disquiet is

want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety.

weary

English

Adjective

(er)

Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.

*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.

*: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.

Expressive of fatigue.

Causing weariness; tiresome.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:weary way

*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

*:There passed a weary time.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* wearily * weariness * wearisome

Verb

(en-verb)

To make or to become weary.

* Shakespeare (Julius Caesar )

So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,

* Milton

I would not cease / To weary him with my assiduous cries.

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

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.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* (l)

disquiet

English

Noun

(-)

Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety.

The lady exhibited disquiet of mind. In other words, she'd gone a bit mad.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.

* 1594 , , IV. i. 154:

I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet .

Derived terms

* disquieting * disquietude

Verb

(en verb)

Make (someone) worried or anxious

He felt disquieted at the lack of interest the child had shown.