Weary vs Heartless - What's the difference?
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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
Without a heart; specifically, without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring.
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Weary is a related term of heartless.
As adjectives the difference between weary and heartless
is that weary is having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued while heartless is without a heart; specifically, without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring.As a verb weary
is to make or to become weary.weary
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* 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.
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* wary English ergative verbsheartless
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(en adjective)- His heartless actions and cold manner left her saddened and feeling alone.
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