world-weary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From world + weary.
Compound parts: world
weary
Inflected forms:
form: world-wearier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: world-weariest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: world weary
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: worldweary
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Tired of the ways of the world; feeling apathetic or cynical due to one's life experiences.
pos: adj
examples: O here
 Will I ſet vp my euerlaſting reſt:
 And ſhake the yoke of inauſpicious ſtarres
 From this world-wearied fleſh: […]
Till you ſhall bid this ſad, world weary ſpirit, / To peaceful regions wing her weary flight.
Yes! they are such spots as thousands are longing for; as the day-dreaming young, and the world-weary old, are yearning after, and painting to their mind's eye, daily in great cities; [...]
Those who smiled upon my childhood / Oft round my chair I see, / Who, though grey-haired and world-weary, / Yet grew young again with me!
"The doctrine of eternal recurrence as a hammer in the hand of the most powerful …" poses the question: "Do you want this once more and innumerable times more …" as "a doctrine strong enough to have the effect of breeding: strengthening the strong, paralyzing and breaking the worldweary."
[Holocaust memorials and museums] form a specific genre of architecture [...] indeed there may even be a certain world-weary resistance to their proliferation [...].
I've been around the block a few too many times (set 'em up, Joe …). Scott has a depth of family experience far beyond my own; I'm world-wearier and have taken poorer care of myself.
His [Frank Sinatra's] vocal problems, caused by polyps on his vocal chords, left him with a deeper and huskier voice. A world-wearier one that, along with his publicized personal problems, appealed to an older audience and more sophisticated college students, and replaced the young romantic sound.
"Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?"
"My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation was more than a little dishonest.
"Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog."
gloss: Bored with life.
pos: adj
examples: In the cafés of the Boule Miche, where the decadent movements are hatched and the fledgling Verlaines come to drown their sorrows in vermouth, you may see the lacklustre visages and tumbled hair of "diabolical" poets and the world-weary figures of end-of-the-century youngsters pledging their mistresses in American grog.
The drill sergeants are the world weariest of soldiers; and now, goddamit, they have to teach 'girls', no bigger than their kid sisters.
With a low budget and limited resources, he's able to expertly mimic the styles of bigger productions, as in a cafeteria number featuring students dancing and stomping on the tables with tricky Broadway-friendly choreography provided by Sarah Swire, who also plays Steph, a wise-cracking, world-weary American kid abandoned by her wealthy parents.
Related words: weight of the world
Derived words: world-wearied
world-weariness
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