weary
weary は英検準1級・TOEIC 860・TOEFL 80・IELTS 6.5レベルの英単語で、「疲れた、うんざりした、疲れさせる」という意味があります。発音記号は /ˈwɪri/ です。
疲れた
解説 Definition
weary は、長時間の移動・仕事・不安などのあとに、体も心も重くなった「疲れた」状態を表す形容詞です。単なる眠さではなく、表情・声・足取りにまで消耗がにじむ、やや文学的な語感があります。
Weary means very tired in body or mind. It can also describe a feeling of being bored or annoyed because something has continued for too long. It is often used in everyday and literary English for physical or emotional tiredness.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
形容詞の weary は、tired よりも「長く耐えた末にすり減った」感じを持ちます。a weary traveler なら旅でへとへと、a weary smile なら無理に浮かべた疲れた笑みです。また weary of complaints のように、同じことが続いて気持ちが離れる「うんざりした」にも広がります。wary「用心深い」と似ていますが、weary の中心は注意ではなく消耗です。
Think of weary as stronger and heavier than tired. It often appears with long effort or emotional drain: a weary traveler, a weary smile, grow weary of waiting. Be careful not to mix it up with wary, which means careful or cautious.
例文
After the long journey, he felt weary and exhausted.
長い旅の後、彼は疲れ切っていた。
The weary workers finally had a rest after finishing the project.
疲れ切った労働者たちはプロジェクトを終了した後、ようやく休息を取りました。
She had a weary expression on her face after the difficult exam.
難しい試験の後、彼女は疲れ切った表情をしていました。
うんざりした
(意味 2)解説 Definition
何度も同じ不快なことが続いて、気持ちの面で嫌になっている状態を表す。人や行為、状況に対して be weary of ... の形でよく使い、単なる身体的な疲労よりも、うんざり感や嫌気の強さを示す。ニュースや言い訳などを聞き飽きた場面でも使える。
Weary describes a feeling of being tired of something because the same unpleasant thing keeps happening. It is often used in patterns like be weary of someone, an action, or a situation. The word can include physical tiredness, but it often shows a stronger sense of mental dislike, boredom, or frustration after too much of something.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
weary は長く続く負担で心身が疲れ、「もうたくさんだ」とうんざりした状態を表す形容詞です。語源は古英語の werig「疲れた」にさかのぼります。be weary of complaints のように of と結び、単なる tired よりも飽き飽き感や精神的消耗が強いのが特徴です。長期戦の疲れと覚えます。
Think of cache as something kept out of sight for later use. Store is a general place for keeping things, and stash is a more casual word that often suggests hiding something secretly. Cache has the feeling of a group of things such as weapons, food, or supplies hidden in a secret place, as in a cache of weapons or a cache of food. The computer word cache is easier to understand if you imagine data being placed somewhere unseen for temporary use.
例文
She grew weary of his excuses and stopped replying to his messages.
彼の言い訳にはうんざりして、彼女は返信するのをやめた。
After weeks of the same bad news, people were weary and hard to encourage.
何週間も同じ悪い知らせが続き、人々はうんざりして励ましにくかった。
Investors are weary of promises that never lead to real change.
投資家たちは、現実の変化につながらない約束にうんざりしている。
疲れさせる
(意味 3)解説 Definition
weary は、長引く負担・退屈・心配などが人の体力や気力をじわじわ奪い、「疲れさせる／うんざりさせる」ことを表す動詞です。原因になる物事を主語にし、受け身で「消耗させられる」と言う形も多いです。
As a verb, weary means to make someone feel tired, both in body and mind. It is often used when something long, repeated, boring, or stressful slowly takes away a person's energy or patience. It can also appear in the passive form to show that someone has been worn down by that experience.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
weary は古英語由来で、力や気力を使い切らせるのが核です。形容詞の「疲れた」だけでなく、動詞では long meetings weary people のように人をじわじわ疲れさせます。tire より文語的で、退屈や反復で心身が重くなる感じが強いです。be weary of は「うんざりしている」なので、消耗感まで含めて覚えます。
Think of a long, worrying, or boring situation that slowly makes a person feel weak and drained. That is the feeling behind weary as a verb: it wears down someone's energy little by little. The word is often used for mental as well as physical tiredness.
例文
The long journey wearied everyone on the bus.
長い旅がバスの乗客みんなを疲れさせた。
Years of constant worry had wearied him.
長年の絶えない心配が彼を消耗させていた。
She was wearied by the endless complaints from customers.
彼女は終わりのない客の苦情にうんざりして疲れさせられていた。
weary の語源・成り立ち Etymology
weary は古英語 werig「疲れた・うんざりした」に由来するゲルマン系の語で、長く負担を受けて力が抜けた状態が原感覚です。weariness や wearisome も同根で、単なる眠気でなく「もう十分だ」と感じる心身の消耗がこの語に残っています。
Weary comes from Old English werig, a Germanic word meaning "tired" or "worn out." Its earliest sense was not only physical tiredness but also mental exhaustion after a long burden. Related forms like weariness and wearisome keep that idea of being tired through strain or repetition.
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