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World-weary   /wərld-wˈɪri/   Listen
World-weary

adjective
1.
Tired of the world.  Synonym: bored.  "Strolled through the museum with a bored air"






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"World-weary" Quotes from Famous Books



... passionate prayer, The silence, like a benediction, falls. The still, slow moments softly slip along The endless thread of thought: a holy throng Of memories, long prisoned, find release. The sacred sweetness of the hour has lent These quiet faces, calm with deep content, And one world-weary soul alike, the light ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various

... and tone were so sweet to her that she could not be sorry for the possible hurt to Jim's feelings. She was young again today, with her world-weary husband making love to her like this. That theory of their having come together merely to keep each other warm on the cold road to the grave was laughingly flung to the winds. She laid her strong right hand on his, limp ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge

... and a pagan death. There lay the aged, world-weary poet; artificial light was withdrawn, and the moonlight streamed through the window upon his noble figure. Wife and son, doctors and nurses, were silent around him. And as Death put the last cold touch on the once passionate heart, ...
— Flowers of Freethought - (First Series) • George W. Foote



Words linked to "World-weary" :   bored, world-weariness, tired



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