wary vs weary
Definitions
adjective
- openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
- marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
Examples
Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary.
The police will need to keep a wary eye on this area of town .
A curious and unwary fish would become a meal when the goosefish inhaled and quickly engulfed its prey.
Definitions
verb
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
adjective
- physically and mentally fatigued
Examples
Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany.
I love the way Sarajevans express themselves; it's a kind of world-weary, mordant wit overlying an amazing ability to absorb and survive great suffering.
It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress.
