world-weary

adjective

world-wea·​ry ˈwərld-ˌwir-ē 

: feeling or showing fatigue from or boredom with the life of the world and especially material pleasures

world-weariness noun

Examples of world-weary in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

While Tutty oozes irresistible charm as Dougal, Christiani Pitts brings depth as the far more world-weary Robin, who has her own outsider status in connection to the upcoming wedding. —Ew Staff December 2, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Dec. 2025

Randolph is great, the perfect combination of world-weary and done-with-it. —Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 26 Nov. 2025

The entire Anthology Collection bristles with that kind of nonstop restless creative spirit — the raw Hamburg punk rock of Volume One, the trippy studio experiments of Volume Two, the mature world-weary grit of Volume Three. —Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2025

Then just in his early 50s, Nakadai played much older, wearing intense, ghost-like makeup to portray a desolate, world-weary warlord. —J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1750, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for world-weary

• kashmiri
• beery
• bleary
• cheery
• cirri
• dearie
• deary
• dreary
• eerie
• kiri
• leary
• leery