overweary

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adjective

over·wea·ry ˌō-vər-ˈwir-ē

: too weary : extremely tired or worn out

He was somewhat overweary after a strenuous year; but to Dartmoor he always came for health and rest when opportunity offered …—

Eden Phillpotts

I resolved to establish myself as a well-behaved female at one or two good restaurants, where I could dine alone at a pleasant table with adequate attentions rather than be pushed into a corner and given a raw or overweary waiter.—

M. F. K. Fisher

And many established managers … are overloaded and overweary of helping people up the ropes who don't always appreciate their cost-free contributions.—

Joyce Lain Kennedy

overweary

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verb

overwearied; overwearying

transitive verb

: to make excessively weary : to cause to be extremely tired or worn out

It was not physical exercise that overwearied him, … it was his tendency to remain only too quiescent, as regarded any toil of the limbs and muscles.—

Nathaniel Hawthorne