fatigued
Americanadjective
Usage
What does fatigued mean? Fatigued means physically or mentally tired, as in The fatigued construction workers decided to finish work for the day. Fatigued is a synonym of words like tired, exhausted, and weary—all words to describe a person who is out of energy. Fatigued describes a state in which you desperately want to sleep or rest. Fatigued comes from the noun fatigue, which means weariness or lethargy. If you are unfatigued, you are not fatigued, that is, you have energy. Example: I took a nap after work because I was fatigued from unloading trucks all day.
Synonym Usage
See tired 1.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of fatigued
Explanation
If you're fatigued, you're exhausted. You're bound to be fatigued after climbing a mountain — or babysitting for five year-old triplets. When you're so wiped out and tired that you can barely brush your teeth and fall into bed at night, you're truly fatigued. It's another way to say "tired," "exhausted," "beat," or "tuckered out." The adjective fatigued comes from fatigue, originally a French word meaning "weariness," from the verb fatiguer, "to tire," which has a Latin root, fatigare, "to make weary."
Example Sentences
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As two Black women burned by the fire and forced to live in its flames, Racine and Anaia are understandably fatigued.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
In recent years, controllers say they have grown increasingly frayed and fatigued due to chronic staffing shortages and frequent equipment outages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Liu said he recognizes that designers, after a time, get fatigued with profit-driven conglomerates and begin to delve into other art forms.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
"We live in such a fast-paced world and so many people are burnt out, overwhelmed and fatigued," she says.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
By 1600 William Gilbert could complain that intellectuals were expected to navigate ‘so vast an Ocean of Books by which the minds of studious men are troubled and fatigued’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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