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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"I felt so under the weather, so fatigued and in so much pain."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
During his barely six months in the post, Fedorov repeatedly clashed with the army's top commander in his efforts to digitise and modernise an army fatigued after four years fighting off the Russian invasion.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Fast food chains have struggled for years to win back consumers fatigued with rising prices and unexciting menus—and then there’s Taco Bell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Gen Z and Gen Alpha aren’t so fatigued by Monkey’s Paw tales because horror’s cyclical nature hasn’t yet completely revamped this trope for a new era.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
When she returns hot and fatigued from a day of shopping, the first thing she does, following Chinese culture, is to take off her sandals and leave them at the door.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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