OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 8036

world-weary

/ˈwɜːld ˌwɪəɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hastiado
Tired of the ways of the world; feeling apathetic or cynical due to one's life experiences.
Those who smiled upon my childhood / Oft round my chair I see, / Who, though grey-haired and world-weary, / Yet grew young again with me!
Yes! they are such spots as thousands are longing for; as the day-dreaming young, and the world-weary old, are yearning after, and painting to their mind's eye, daily in great citi…
de hastío • hastiado
Bored with life.
In the cafés of the Boule Miche, where the decadent movements are hatched and the fledgling Verlaines come to drown their sorrows in vermouth, you may see the lacklustre visages an…
The drill sergeants are the world weariest of soldiers; and now, goddamit, they have to teach 'girls', no bigger than their kid sisters.