tired

[ tahyuhrd ]

/ taɪərd /

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adjective

exhausted, as by exertion; fatigued or sleepy: a tired runner.

weary or bored (usually followed by of): tired of the same food every day.

hackneyed; stale, as a joke, phrase, or sermon.

Informal. impatient or disgusted: You make me tired.

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1 enervated.

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1 rested; energetic.

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Origin of tired

First recorded in 1350–1400, tired is from the Middle English word tyred.See tire¹, -ed²

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1. Tired, exhausted, fatigued, wearied, weary suggest a condition in which a large part of one's energy and vitality has been consumed. One who is tired has used up a considerable part of his or her bodily or mental resources: to feel tired at the end of the day. One who is exhausted is completely drained of energy and vitality, usually because of arduous or long-sustained effort: exhausted after a hard run. One who is fatigued has consumed energy to a point where rest and sleep are demanded: feeling rather pleasantly fatigued. One who is wearied has been under protracted exertion or strain that has gradually worn out his or her strength: wearied by a long vigil. Weary suggests a more permanent condition than wearied: weary of struggling against misfortunes.

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH tired

tired , tried

Words nearby tired

Tirana, Tiranë, Tiraspol, tire, tire chain, tired, tired out, Tiree, tire iron, tireless, tirelessly

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tired²

[ tahyuhrd ]

/ taɪərd /

adjective

having a tire or tires.

Origin of tired

First recorded in 1890–95; tire² + -ed³

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How to use tired in a sentence

In the early 1990s, Gilbert remembers arriving in Melbourne a week before the tournament and trying to race his way into playing shape, only to feel tired two days later.
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On Christmas Day, she said she was tired and went back to bed.
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After hours and hours of boiling, you may get a tired of watching your cauldron bubble, but don’t give in to the temptation to wander off and work on some other project.
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Isolating in her bedroom, Shorter felt more tired every day.
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In my late teens, I quickly tired of sleeping on friends’ couches.
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I answered his questions perfunctorily, begging off that I was soon to return to my dorm, as I was tired.
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If your ears are tired of slick auto-tuned vocals, pick up this disk for an aural detox.
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But Winter is dead, Clapton is tired of life on the road, and King unreliable in concert.
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Hitchcock saw human behavior fresh, even in a tired form like melodrama.
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It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
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But this time, with all his cunning and perspiration, he could not induce another throb in the tired engines.
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When he gets quite large the boy will get tired of having him for a pet, and perhaps bring him back.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
But I am afraid you would very soon get tired of us, and I ought to tell you, frankly, that our little home is to be—a broken up.
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Aunt Ri was looking forward to the rest with great anticipation; she was heartily tired of being on the move.
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British Dictionary definitions for tired

tired

/ (ˈtaɪəd) /

adjective

weary; fatigued

(foll by of)

having lost interest in; boredI'm tired of playing cards
having lost patience with; exasperated byI'm tired of his eternal excuses

hackneyed; stalethe same tired old jokes

tired and emotional euphemistic slightly drunk

Derived forms of tired

tiredly, adverbtiredness, noun

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tired

In addition to the idiom beginning with tired

tired out

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dead on one's feet (tired)
sick and tired

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