wearying

1. 1.

   producing exhaustion

   “an exhausting march”

   “the visit was especially wearing”

   Synonymsexhaustingtiringwearing

   Similareffortful

Questions about wearying

What does wearying mean?

wearying means "producing exhaustion".

How many syllables are in wearying?

wearying has 3 syllables: we-a-rying. The stress falls on "we". In IPA it is /ˈwiɹiɪŋ/.

What is another word for wearying?

Close synonyms include exhausting, tiring, wearing. 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 wearying a common word?

wearying 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.