ppl. a. [-ING2.]
1. That causes weariness, fatigue or lassitude.
1798. Bloomfield, Farmer’s Boy, Spring, 62. When Giles with wearying strides From ridge to ridge the ponderous harrow guides.
1834. Southey, Lett. (1856), IV. 369. A day in London is more wearying to me than a walk up Scawfell.
1864. Disraeli, in G. E. Buckle, Life (1916), IV. xii. 405. Lord P., after the division, scrambled up a wearying staircase to the ladies’ gallery.
1862. Wraxall, trans. Hugo’s Les Misérables, I. iii. 7. The two old females generally accompanied him, but when the journey was too wearying for them he went alone.
1898. E. Glanville, Kloof Bride, viii. They took up their position and began a wearying watch.
2. That causes tedium or ennui.
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, V. 216. Cutting short … all the wearying round of explanation.
1840. Marryat, Poor Jack, xxv. He was never wearying, and often … amusing.
1857. Livingstone, Trav., ix. 185. Nothing is so wearying to the spirit as talking to those who agree with everything advanced.
1911. Petrie, Revolutions of Civilisation, iii. 59. Next come the still lower Roman copies of Greek work, of wearying banality.
Hence Wearyingly adv.
1828. Examiner, 23 Nov., 756/1 As for her voice, it is so wearyingly monotonous, that it is like a high wind coming through a cranny.
1902. Elinor Glyn, Refl. Ambrosine, 272. You said at least you were not wearyingly faithful.
