TIRED • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Tired

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/tˈaɪərd/ Listen

Tired

adjective

1.

Depleted of strength or energy. "Too tired to eat"

2.

Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite, well-worn. "His remarks were trite and commonplace" , "Hackneyed phrases" , "A stock answer" , "Repeating threadbare jokes" , "Parroting some timeworn axiom" , "The trite metaphor 'hard as nails'"

Tire

verb

(past & past part. tired; pres. part. tiring)

1.

Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody. Synonyms: fatigue, jade, pall, weary.

2.

Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress. Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary.

3.

Deplete. Synonyms: exhaust, play out, run down, sap. "We quickly played out our strength"

4.

Cause to be bored. Synonym: bore.

See more definitions of Tired...

See images of 'Tired'

Antonyms of 'Tired'

Etymology of 'Tired'

Related searches:

automobile tire

radial-ply tire

WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University

Share |

"Tired" Quotes from Famous Books

... Everything smells bad and the people are even dirtier than in Chile. Of course, there are some beautiful spots in the country and plazas in the cities, but all this gush about the beauty and loveliness of things in general makes one tired. ...

— Birdseye Views of Far Lands • James T. Nichols

... the lady and gentleman on the monument have their ruffs the same on the inside, towards the wall, as outside; and, oh! I do so want to get all the dust out of the folds of the lady's ruff: I wish they'd lock me into the church, and I'd soon get out when I was tired.' ...

— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge

... welcome to live with him; but that she was not his wife, and that the child which she bore could not be the heir to his title, and could claim no heirship to his property. He did love her,—having found her to be a woman of whose company he had not tired in six months. He was going back to Italy, and he offered to take her with him,—but he could not, he said, permit the farce of her remaining at Lovel Grange and calling herself the Countess Lovel. If she chose to go with him to Palermo, where he had a castle, ...

— Lady Anna • Anthony Trollope

... They never tired of entertaining the lady. And whether the yellowish-brown person decided that Bobby Bobolink sang louder than the others, or whether she thought his singing was sweeter or gayer than that of his friends, nobody ever found out. Perhaps he managed to say something—in his song—that especially ...

— The Tale of Bobby Bobolink - Tuck-me-In Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey

... for action. M. d'Aubray, tired with business, was to spend a holiday at his castle called Offemont. The marquise offered to go with him. M. d'Aubray, who supposed her relations with Sainte-Croix to be quite broken off, joyfully ...

— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com