Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not tired, tiring, or relenting; indefatigable. synonym: tireless.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Incessant; unwearying; unwearied: as, weariless wings.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Incapable of being wearied.

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  • adjective Tireless; incapable of being wearied.

Etymologies

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weary +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The weariless tide came up and lifted the bedded keel and the plunged forefoot, and gurgled with a quiet wash among the straky bends, then lurched the boats to this side and to that, to get their heft correctly, and dandled them at last with their bowsprits dipped and their little mast-heads nodding.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Dante that compressed force of lifelong passion which could make a private experience cosmopolitan in its reach and everlasting in its significance; we respect in Goethe the Aristotelian poet, wise by weariless observation, witty with intention, the stately _Geheimerrath_ of a provincial court in the empire of Nature.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

  • Not at all, but because the work had grown to be a volume under his weariless hand.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

  • The recently plowed earth, the yellowing roads, the dark woodland, everything was pulsating in weariless undulation.

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan. 1918

  • This lofty granite wall is bent this way and that by the restless and weariless action of glaciers just as if it had been made of dough.

    Steep Trails John Muir 1876

  • As the day advanced, the gale gave no sign of dying, excepting brief lulls, the Valley was filled with its weariless roar, and the cloudless sky grew garish-white from myriads of minute, sparkling snow-spicules.

    The Yosemite John Muir 1876

  • Day after day the storm continued, piling snow on snow in weariless abundance.

    Steep Trails John Muir 1876

  • For many years before the settlement of the country the fur of the beaver brought a high price, and therefore it was pursued with weariless ardor.

    Steep Trails John Muir 1876

  • The weariless tide came up and lifted the bedded keel and the plunged forefoot, and gurgled with a quiet wash among the straky bends, then lurched the boats to this side and to that, to get their heft correctly, and dandled them at last with their bowsprits dipped and their little mast-heads nodding.

    Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War 1862

  • Dante that compressed force of lifelong passion which could make a private experience cosmopolitan in its reach and everlasting in its significance; we respect in Goethe the Aristotelian poet, wise by weariless observation, witty with intention, the stately _Geheimerrath_ of a provincial court in the empire of Nature.

    Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

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