bleary

Other forms of bleary

comparative or superlative

blearier

comparative or superlative

bleariest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bleary

What does bleary mean?

bleary means "tired to the point of exhaustion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bleary?

bleary has 2 syllables: blear-y. The stress falls on "blear". In IPA it is /ˈblɪɹi/.

What is another word for bleary?

Close synonyms include blear, bleary-eyed, blear-eyed, blurred, blurry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bleary a common word?

bleary is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.