Modifies a noun

• cynicism: We could resign ourselves to them with world-weary cynicism.

• voice: Hell To Pay and Only Pretend are outstanding tracks, that world-weary voice singing words of bitter experience.

• man: He is in fact conspicuously lacking in irony; one could not meet a less jaded or world-weary man.

• sigh: Her world-weary sighs are becoming a part of me, more and more!

• hack: Somehow tho there's something universally appealing about DH that seems to make even the most world-weary hack sit up and take notice.

• vocal: The resultant blues are deeply funky affairs brimming with spiky guitar licks, rolling bluesy piano and Otis's emotion-packed, world-weary vocals.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: Often the detachment will stimulate a desire for solitude, as the person feels world-weary.