different between tired vs aweary

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ta??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ta??d/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)d

Verb

tired

1. simple past tense and past participle of tire

Adjective

tired (comparative more tired or tireder, superlative most tired or tiredest)

1. In need of some rest or sleep.
2. Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.

   I'm tired of this

3. Overused, cliché.

   a tired song

4. (slang, African-American Vernacular) ineffectual; incompetent

Usage notes

• Adverbs often applied to "tired": physically, mentally, emotionally.

Synonyms

• (in need of rest): exhausted, fatigued, languid; See also Thesaurus:fatigued
• (in need of sleep): sleepy; See also Thesaurus:sleepy
• (fed up): See also Thesaurus:annoyed
• (overused): See also Thesaurus:hackneyed

Translations

See also

• I am tired
• sick and tired
• that tired feeling

Anagrams

• drite, tride, tried

English

Etymology

a- +? weary

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???i

Adjective

aweary (comparative more aweary, superlative most aweary)

1. (poetic) Weary, tired.
   • 1830, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana

     She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, / I would that I were dead!'

   • 1849+, George Ticknor, History Of Spanish Literature

     And all his people told him that their horses were aweary, and that they were aweary themselves.

   • 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times: Second Book: Chapter VIII

     ...when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil.

   • 1871 Dante Gabriel Rosetti, The cloud confines, lines 49-50

     The sky leans dumb on the sea, / Aweary with all its wings;

   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company - Chapter XII

     "Nay, save that she seems aweary".

   • ante 1924 (posthumous, died 1910): Mark Twain, Autobiography

     I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it.

   • 1940, Ngaio Marsh, Death of a Peer

     "I am aweary with watching," said Frid. "Praise to Allah the day is ours. Ho, slaves!"

References

• aweary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “aweary”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.