world weary

English

Adjective

world weary (comparative world wearier or more world weary, superlative world weariest or most world weary)

  1. Alternative form of world-weary
    • 1988, The Geographical Magazine:
      The drill sergeants are the world weariest of soldiers; and now, goddamit, they have to teach 'girls', no bigger than their kid sisters.
    • 2010, Courtland Lewis, ‎Paula Smithka, Doctor Who and Philosophy: Bigger on the Inside, →ISBN, page 262:
      Consider this commentary from a world weary poet, Emily Brontë, a contemporary of Schopenhauer, from “I Am the Only Being” (17th May 1839): 'Twas grief enough to think mankind All hollow, servile, insincere; But worse to turn to my own mind, And find the same corruption there.
    • 2013, Michael G Reccia, The Joseph Communications: Your Life After Death, →ISBN:
      One of the problems we have with spirits that make the transition who are not spiritually aware and who have not rediscovered their nature is that they are so very, very sad and world weary.
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