Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Weariness Roget’s Thesaurus §841
N. weariness, defatigation|, lassitude, drowsiness, disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness, satiety, taedium vitae, boredom, ennui, wearisomeness, tediousness, dull work, tedium, monotony, twice-told tale, bore, buttonholer, proser, wet blanket, pill*, stiff*, heavy hours, "the enemy"
V. weary, tire, bore, bore to death, weary to death, tire to death, bore out of one's skull, bore out of one's life, weary out of one's life, tire out of one's life, bore out of all patience, weary out of all patience, wear out one's patience, tire out of all patience, set to sleep, send to sleep, buttonhole, pall, sicken, nauseate, disgust, harp on the same string, drag its slow length along, drag its weary length along, never hear the last of, be tired of, be sick of, be tired with, yawn, die with ennui, mego, my eyes glaze over
Adj. wearying, wearing, wearisome, tiresome, irksome, uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat, prosy, prosing, slow, soporific, somniferous, disgusting, unenjoyed, weary, tired, drowsy, uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life, sick of
Adv. wearily, usque ad nauseam
Phr. time hanging heavily on one's hands, toujours perdrix, crambe repetita
Satiety Roget’s Thesaurus §869
N. satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit, cloyment, satiation, weariness, spoiled child, enfant gete, enfant terrible, too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix, crambe repetita
V. sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut, gorge, surfeit, bore, tire, spoil, have enough of, have quite enough of, have one's fill, have too much of, be satiated
Int. enough, hold, eheu jam satis, basta, 4, contemplative affections
Expectance Roget’s Thesaurus §871
N. expectance &c. # (expectation) 507, example, instance (conformity) 82, normality (habit) 613 nine days' wonder
V. expect, not be surprised, not wonder, nil admirari, make nothing of
Adj. expecting, unamazed, astonished at nothing, blase, expected, foreseen, unsurprising, common, ordinary, normal, typical, usual
Adv. naturally, as a matter of course
Int. no wonder, of course
No Bible verses found for "Blase".
