WEARILY Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

wearily

adverb

Definition of wearily

as in tiredly

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Recent Examples of wearily Some of the rumors were true, most weren’t, but there was no line across which any tale was too tall to make our bodies hurt a little more, to make our hearts move a little more wearily. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 Every Sunday, Jesse Minter strode wearily onto a red-eye flight at Los Angeles International Airport for a trip back to Baltimore, where the work week awaited. — Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 12 May 2026 If the power comes flickering on for a few precious hours in the middle of the night, that’s when Cubans now rise to wearily cook and iron clothes. — Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026 One wearily pushes hers in a creaky pram. — Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025 And so, Vladimir and Estragon wearily choose to continue waiting, day in and day out. — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Sep. 2025 Shirley Phinzee blinked wearily under the fluorescent lights of a Miami Wendy’s. — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025 Their two young kids walked wearily throughout the car. — Paulina Czupryna, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025 Harry could be described as a counterpart on the other side of the law from John Stone, the wearily disheveled attorney played by Turturro in HBO’s riveting limited series, The Night Of — even if Harry has a greater appreciation for good tailoring. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wearily

Adverb

Without a shred of evidence, Cloud casually weaponized domestic violence allegations against a fan who was simply cheering for his home team.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Asked to run down her dream blunt rotation, Jauregui casually noted that she’s smoked with Snoop before.

— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of casually

Adverb

Demis Hassabis has made the same point more bluntly, cautioning that using AI lazily can actually make people worse at critical thinking.

— Ted Ladd, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
The Roamer rolled lazily in the light swell that was coming in from the open lake, and our rod tips dipped and rose, but nobody got a strike.

— JAMES D. OXLEY, Outdoor Life, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of lazily

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Lady Holiday listlessly turns the pages, barely glancing at Miss Piggy in various outfits.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
Every once in a while a crow calls, but there’s not much structure to it, with the sounds listlessly bouncing off the walls imposed by the five-minute runtimes instead of cohering into a rhythm.

— Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 6 July 2026

Definition of listlessly

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Elsewhere, stoles stole the show, particular those draped languidly over the shoulder or fashioned as cummerbunds.

— Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026
On a windy afternoon, a family packs a beach bag, perhaps for the last time, and languidly walks towards the coast.

— Matilda Hague, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of languidly

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Current leaks through transistors that should be switched off, and electrons move more sluggishly through channels only a few atoms thick.

— Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
The fish looks straight at me, flopping sluggishly from side to side.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of sluggishly

Adverb

When Oscar halfheartedly tries to throw a ball into one of the set’s prop cubes and improbably makes the shot, the whole set goes joyously nuts, with the performers leaping up to embrace him and cavort around him.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
The show’s interests are theoretically in a nuclear family gradually coming back together, though even that theme is halfheartedly pursued.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 16 July 2026

Definition of halfheartedly

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