tired
adjective
[ tʌɪəd ]
• in need of sleep or rest; weary.
• "Fisher rubbed his tired eyes"
Similar:
worn out,
exhausted,
fatigued,
tired out,
overtired,
weary,
sleepy,
drowsy,
wearied,
sapped,
dog-tired,
spent,
drained,
jet-lagged,
played out,
debilitated,
prostrate,
enervated,
jaded,
low,
all in,
done (in/up),
dead,
dead beat,
dead tired,
dead on one's feet,
asleep on one's feet,
ready to drop,
fagged out,
bushed,
worn to a frazzle,
shattered,
burnt out,
knackered,
whacked,
pooped,
• bored or impatient with.
• "I have to look after these animals when you get tired of them"
Similar:
fed up with,
bored with/by,
weary of,
sick of,
sick and tired of,
jaded with/by,
surfeited with/by,
satiated by,
glutted with/by,
have had enough of,
have had a basinful of,
have had it up to here with,
have had something up to here,
• (especially of a statement or idea) boring or uninteresting because overfamiliar.
• "tired clichés like the ‘information revolution’"
Similar:
hackneyed,
worn out,
stale,
overworked,
threadbare,
warmed-up,
banal,
trite,
stock,
stereotyped,
clichéd,
run-of-the-mill,
commonplace,
platitudinous,
unoriginal,
unimaginative,
uninspired,
flat,
out of date,
outdated,
outmoded,
passé,
archaic,
obsolete,
defunct,
antiquated,
warmed-over,
old hat,
corny,
out of the ark,
played out,
hacky,
past their sell-by date,
tire
verb
• feel or cause to feel in need of rest or sleep.
• "soon the ascent grew steeper and he began to tire"
Similar:
get/grow/become tired,
become fatigued,
weaken,
grow weak,
lose one's strength,
flag,
droop,
drop,
fatigue,
tire out,
wear out,
overtire,
weary,
exhaust,
drain,
sap,
wash out,
tax,
overtax,
enervate,
debilitate,
enfeeble,
jade,
incapacitate,
devitalize,
prostrate,
whack,
shatter,
bush,
knacker,
frazzle,
wear to a frazzle,
poop,
take it out of,
fag out,
do in,
knock out,
exhausting,
wearying,
fatiguing,
enervating,
draining,
sapping,
stressful,
wearing,
trying,
crushing,
demanding,
exacting,
taxing,
challenging,
burdensome,
arduous,
gruelling,
punishing,
grinding,
onerous,
difficult,
hard,
tough,
heavy,
laborious,
back-breaking,
crippling,
strenuous,
rigorous,
uphill,
stringent,
strict,
killing,
murderous,
hellish,
exigent,
• lose interest in; become bored with.
• "the media will tire of publicizing every protest"
Origin:
Old English tēorian ‘fail, come to an end’, also ‘become physically exhausted’, of unknown origin.
