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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing" [syn: exhausting, tiring, wearing, wearying]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Weary Wea"ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wearied; p. pr. & vb. n. Wearying.] 1. To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling. So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers. --Shak. 2. To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance. I stay too long by thee; I weary thee. --Shak. 3. To harass by anything irksome. I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries. --Milton. To weary out, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue. Syn: To jade; tire; fatigue; fag. See Jade.

Moby Thesaurus

boresome, boring, burdensome, draining, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, grinding, grueling, harsh, heavy, irksome, killing, onerous, oppressive, overburdensome, punishing, straining, stressful, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, tyrannous, weariful, wearing, wearisome, weighty, yawny