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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Insipid; tasteless; weak; washy.
  2. Withered; wizen; shrunk.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. obsolete Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
  2. adj. Sickly, wizened, feeble.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Weak; withered; shrunk.
  2. adj. obsolete Insipid; tasteless; unsavory.

Etymologies

  1. Origin uncertain. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “And though he be at a banquet, or at some merry feast, he sighs for grief of heart (as [1849] Cyprian hath it) and cannot sleep though it be upon a down bed; his wearish body takes no rest, [1850] troubled in his abundance, and sorrowful in plenty, unhappy for the present, and more unhappy in the life to come.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “In the Beckett play, Dennehy transforms into the character of Krapp, a "wearish old man" celebrating his sixty-ninth birthday by listening to an audiotape he made of himself on his thirty-ninth.”

    Inside Higher Ed

  • “- godmode (You are HERO) - super jump - I like housetop (if You use 80 value on file - Terminator, Rambo & Chuck Norris is .... wearish) - ok speed (You are not turtle) - no tire”

    Fulldls.com

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