Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Blurred or dimmed by or as if by tears: bleary eyes.
- adj. Vaguely outlined; indistinct.
- adj. Exhausted; worn-out.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- adj. Tired, having senses dulled by exhaustion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Somewhat blear.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. indistinct or hazy in outline
- adj. tired to the point of exhaustion
Examples
“A lot fo this ended up in bleary morning train rides home the next day.”
“I'm also still bleary from the weekend: worked all day yesterday, stayed up too late on Saturday helping my UConn-fan wife obliterate the immediate past with mojitos and Classical Barbra, and was out too late on Friday witnessing The Bad Plus in the flesh and then finally meeting Ethan Iverson.”
“Through Mrs. Trapolli’s kitchen window, Maia can see daylight draining into the sky, bleaching it in bleary transparent streaks.”
“A BusyBodyBook is a dayplanner for parents, which, although I have no direct experience of it, has got to be a good thing because hello? keeping track of all baby-related activities and appointments and whatever ain’t easy when you’re all bleary from the parenting business that you can’t keep track of in the first place.”
“Surely most of us who have children can recall the bleary days of early parenthood when that baby woke us throughout the night.”
Kids sleep with their cell phones: Are they suffering from connection addiction?
“Two groups in a row, she’s been rumpled and bleary, which is out of character for her.”
“What we've been seeing from these teams a lot is kind of bleary-eyed guys wandering back and forth grabbing food," says Corns.”
“Common opponents within a division were, and again I'm kind of bleary now, at most about 11?”
“But the band don't play their songs as a series of genre pastiches; it all sounds like the work of the same outfit, one enamored of a certain kind of bleary, melodic sound and willing to take just about any path to get there.”
“If you're still kind of bleary-eyed this morning, you may want to skim rapidly over the following:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bleary’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Mondayish
Tired. Of all of it.
mondayish, tucker, shank-weary, faik, fash, palestric, shot, careworn, world-weary, world-weariness, wayworn, wearying and 81 more...
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So busy I don't have time to scratch ...
Sometimes work and life is so hectic that I don't have time to hang around wordie and immerse myself in its pleasures.
If this list remains empty it will be a poignant memorial to tho...maiden over-worked, pantomime horse, so tired i don't ..., a fine kettle of ..., trumpa-trump, e for brick, bleary, armenian nutmeg cake, tiramisù, so tired i couldn..., bow ties with gra..., hug and 4 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
corrosion, astonish, solace, ferment, continuum, kinesthetic, permeate, repose, caprice, cardinal, discourse, surrender and 610 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 557 more...
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to be sorted
litter, palanquin, aver, catamite, phlox, pliant, modicum, poorthink, cow, decalogue, caveat, dais and 175 more...
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good words
words that are mostly fun to say or just lovely
undulate, voluptuous, whimsy, parse, dank, cerulean, peen, traipsing, listless, coup de grace, reconnoiter, mercurial and 499 more...
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Thunderfoot's Words
lugubrious, salacious, vituperative, foist, foment, embolism, stygian, mellifluous, bildungsroman, shirk, crone, elide and 173 more...
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indiekitten's Words
comely, resistentialism, truncated, lugubrious, bleary, tine, ramification, ruminate, athleticism, abstemious, clavicle, bookkeeper and 6 more...
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lovely words
talon, flightless, feathered, coral, innocence, breathing, golden, scent, crinkle, colors, flushed, seamist and 57 more...
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noggie42's Words
kleptocracy, zeugma, shilly-shally, hierophant, maunder, periwinkle, verisimilitude, diphthong, flippant, ludicrous, kreplach, gullet and 69 more...
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