exhausting

[ig-zaw-sting]

adjective

1. producing or tending to produce fatigue, weariness, or the like.

   an exhausting day; an exhausting child.

Other Word Forms

• exhaustingly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of exhausting¹

First recorded in 1530–40; exhaust + -ing ²

Example Sentences

Engaging with “Dating Talk” on the Whatever channel, or similar red-pill content wherever it shows up, can be exhausting for outsiders of this world.

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For kids who cope by masking, constantly deciphering and mimicking social responses is often cognitively and emotionally exhausting.

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But constantly deciphering and mimicking social responses is cognitively and emotionally exhausting.

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The host said it sounded like this movie was “much less physically exhausting” than her work in “Wicked,” but Grande begged to disagree.

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“I didn’t keep a journal anymore; I wasn’t writing. … I was on this sort of rock ’n’ roll treadmill, which can be exciting, but is also exhausting.

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