wearish

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English

Etymology

Possibly from weary + -ish.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

wearish (comparative more wearish, superlative most wearish)

  1. (obsolete) Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
  2. (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 […].
    • Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, 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 […].

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