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tired Definition

tired (tīrd)

adjective

  1. fatigued, worn-out, or weary
  2. stale; hackneyed

Etymology: ME (Northern) tyrit < tiren: see tire

tired Related Forms
tired′ly adverb tired′·ness noun
tired Idioms

make someone tired

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Slang to annoy or vex someone this foolishness makes me tired

tired Synonyms

tired

modif.

fatigued, weary, run-down, exhausted, overworked, overtaxed, wearied, worn, spent, wasted, burned out, worn-out, jaded, narcoleptic, drooping, distressed, unmanned, drowsy, droopy, sleepy, haggard, faint, prostrated, broken-down, drained, consumed, empty, collapsing, all in*, finished*, stale*, pooped out*, fagged*, dog-tired*, dead on one's feet*, pooped*, done in*, done for*, beat up*, worn to a frazzle*, played out*, tuckered out*, fed up*; see also bored, weak 1, worn 2.

Antonyms active*, lively*, energetic.

tired is applied to one who has been drained of much of his strength and energy through exertion, boredom, impatience, etc. tired by years of hard toil; weary (or wearied) suggests such depletion of energy or interest as to make one unable or unwilling to continue weary of study; exhausted implies a total draining of strength and energy; fatigued refers to one who has lost so much energy through prolonged exertion that rest and sleep are essential fatigued at the end of the day; fagged, an informal word, suggests great exhaustion or fatigue from hard, unremitting work or exertion completely fagged after a set of tennis

tired Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • hassle: Tired of the hassles from your local and long distance telephone companies?
  • hardship: After reaching from office male partner expects his wife fresh and sexy who is heavily tired of hardship.
  • hearing: She regaled me with her war stories, her eyes shining as she told of the countless near-misses I never tired of hearing.

Modifying Another Word

  • too: Too tired to remove any mud from the bottom.
  • excessively: Excessively tired quads can be a product of having too much of a vertical component in the running stride.
  • pretty: Frankly people in the industry are pretty tired of it.
  • visibly: Gaultier bounced back after losing the opening game to win the second and third but visibly tired in the fourth as Ricketts tightened up.
  • awfully: I'm sorry son, I feel awfully tired all of a sudden.

Modifies a noun

  • cliche: It may seem a tired cliché, but it is a fact, Là Par Force does not sound like any other band!
  • limb: However, one line escaped the tired limbs of the crew.
  • leg: The little tired legs gave away in the end.
  • muscle: Visit the Spa and l et the salutary water wake up tired muscles or how about a detour by bike to Hungary?
  • eye: The beds posed as a tempting offer to relieve our tired eyes, but lunch beckoned.
  • foot: Oh I loved you in spite of My tired feet in tight shoes.

Used with adjective complement

  • feel: She didn't feel tired, she just looked tired.
  • grow: I was growing tired of living in Mayfair anyway.
  • get: Plus, I got tired of paying for the upgrades.
  • look: She didn't feel tired, she just looked tired.
  • become: Over the next few days he became very tired, increasing his daytime sleep considerably.
  • seem: She seems to want a hug, although she does not seem tired.
tired Quotes

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.

—Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

—Lazarus, Emma

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor. In the end you have to be content with his common humanity.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset! all stands fast. Thou thyself must break at last. Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still.

—Arnold, Matthew

Cansado, sobre todo, de estar siempre conmigo, de hallarme cada d|¤a, cuando termina el suen‹  o, all |¤ , donde me encuentre, con las mismas narices y con las mismas piernas. Tired, above all, of being always with myself, of finding myself everyday, when the dream comes to an end, wherever I am, with the same old nose and with the same old legs.

—Girondo, Oliverio

I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the pots, tired of my mouth and my breasts tired of the cosmetics and the silks† I was tired of the gender of things.

—Sexton, Anne ne¤  e Harvey

Tired of knocking at Preferment's door.

—Arnold, Matthew

I'm less than two months old and I'm tired of living.

—White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)

: I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.

—Albee, Edward Franklin, III

Browse dictionary entries near tired

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