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weariness
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weariness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exhaustion |
| Synonyms: | boredom, ennui, fatigue, languishment, languor, lassitude, lethargy, monotony, tedium |
| Main Entry: | weariness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
altered, anhelose, arid, bald, battered, blown, breathless, broken, disgusting, dog weary, done up, drooping, dry, dull, effete, exhausted, faint, fatigued, fatiguing, flagging, flat, footsore, forfoughten, forjeskit, forswunk, gravedinous, haggard, hoined, humdrum, irksome, knocked up, languescent, larbar, lassate, life, more dead than alive, mortal, on one's last legs, out of breath, out of wind, overfatigued, overspent, overtired, played out, prosing, prostrate, puffing and blowing, pulled down, quanked, ramfeezled, ready to drop, seedy, shattered, short, short of breath, short of wind, sick of, slow, somniferous, soporific, spent, stupefying, stupid, surbated, tedious, tired, tired to death, tiresome, toilworn, trying, unenjoyed, uninterested, uninteresting, unrefreshed, unrestored, used up, walked off one's legs, wayworn, weariable, weariness, wearisome, wearisomeness, weary, weary of life, wearying, weatherbeaten, windless, worn, worn out
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| Concept: | Weariness. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
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-nouns
weariness, defatigation; lassitude (fatigue); drowsiness., disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness; satiety; taedium vitae (dejection); boredom, ennui., wearisomeness, tediousness; dull work, tedium, monotony, twice-told tale., bore, buttonholer, proser, wet blanket; pill, stiff; heavy hours, "the enemy" [time].
-verbs
weary; tire (fatigue); bore; bore to death, weary to death, tire to death, bore out of one's life, weary out of one's life, tire out of one's life, bore out of all patience, weary out of all patience, tire out of all patience; set to sleep, send to sleep; buttonhole., pall, sicken, nauseate, disgust., harp on the same string; drag its slow length along, drag its weary length along., never hear the last of; be tired of, be tired with; yawn; die with ennui.
-adjectives
wearying; wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous., disgusting; unenjoyed., weary, tired; drowsy (sleepy); uninterested, glagging, used up, worn out, blaser, life-weary, weary of life; sick of.
-adverbs
wearily; usque ad nauseam.
-phrases
time hanging heavily on one's hands; toujours perdrix; crambe repetita.
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| Antonyms: | amusement |
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| Main Entry: | dissatisfaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discontent, unhappiness |
| Synonyms: | annoyance, anxiety, aversion, boredom, chagrin, complaint, desolation, disapproval, discomfort, discouragement, disfavor, disgruntlement, disinclination, dislike, disliking, dismay, displeasure, disquiet, disrelish, distaste, distress, ennui, envy, exasperation, fretfulness, frustration, heartburn, hopelessness, indisposition, irritation, jealousy, lamentation, malcontent, malcontentment, oppression, querulousness, regret, resentment, trouble, uneasiness, weariness, worry |
| Antonyms: | contentment, happiness, pleasure, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | ennui |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boredom |
| Synonyms: | apathy, blahs, blues, dejection, depression, dissatisfaction, doldrums, dumps, fatigue, ho hums, lack of interest, languidness, languor, lassitude, listlessness, melancholy, sadness, satiety, spiritlessness, surfeit, tedium, weariness, yawn |
| Antonyms: | energy, enthusiasm, excitement, liveliness, vigor |
| Main Entry: | exhaustion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiredness |
| Synonyms: | burnout, collapse, consumption, debilitation, debility, enervation, expenditure, fatigue, feebleness, lassitude, prostration, weariness |
| Antonyms: | energy, liveliness, readiness, vigor |
| Main Entry: | fatigue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiredness |
| Synonyms: | brain fag, burnout, debility, dullness, enervation, ennui, exhaustion, faintness, fatigation, feebleness, heaviness, languor, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, overtiredness, weakness, weariness |
| Antonyms: | energy, freshness, liveliness, spirit, vigor |
| Main Entry: | gloom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | melancholy, depression |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues, catatonia, chagrin, cheerlessness, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, dismals, distress, doldrums, dolor, downheartedness, dullness, dumps, foreboding, grief, heaviness, heavy-heartedness, horror, low spirits, malaise, misery, misgiving, mopes, morbidity, mourning, oppression, pensiveness, pessimism, sadness, saturninity, sorrow, unhappiness, vexation, weariness, woe |
| Antonyms: | animation, cheer, contentedness, encouragement, happiness, joy, sparkle, vivaciousness |
| Main Entry: | lassitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lethargy |
| Synonyms: | apathy, dullness, exhaustion, fatigue, idleness, inaction, inactivity, languor, laziness, listlessness, sleepiness, sluggishness, tiredness, torpor, weakness, weariness |
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