Tired \Tired\, a.
Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tire \Tire\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tired; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tiring.] [OE. teorien to become weary, to fail, AS. teorian
to be tired, be weary, to tire, exhaust; perhaps akin to E.
tear to rend, the intermediate sense being, perhaps, to wear
out; or cf. E. tarry.]
To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail;
to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon
tires.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
tired
adj 1: depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying
babies"; "too tired to eat" [ant: rested]
2: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic
sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace";
"hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating
threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the
trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace,
hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare,
timeworn, trite, well-worn]
WordNet (r) 2.0
142 Moby Thesaurus words for "tired":
all in, appareled, arrayed, attired, ausgespielt, beat, beat up,
beaten, bedecked, blase, bone-weary, breeched, bromidic, bushed,
capped, chausse, clad, cliched, cloaked, clothed, coifed,
commonplace, costumed, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat,
debilitated, decked, dight, disguised, dispirited, dog-tired,
dog-weary, done, done in, done up, drained, dressed, drooping,
droopy, effete, emptied, endued, enervated, enfeebled, exhausted,
fagged, fagged out, faint, fainting, far-gone, fatigued, fed-up,
feeling faint, flagging, footsore, frazzled, garbed, garmented,
gone, good and tired, gowned, habilimented, habited, hackneyed,
hooded, invested, irked, jaded, knocked out, laid low, languid,
life-weary, liveried, mantled, melancholic, melancholy, overused,
overworked, pantalooned, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate,
raimented, ready to drop, rigged out, robed, run ragged, run-down,
sagging, satiated, seedy, shod, shoed, shotten, sick, sick of,
spent, splenetic, stale, stereotyped, tired of, tired of living,
tired out, tired to death, tired-winged, togged, toilworn,
tricked out, trite, trousered, tuckered out, unimaginative,
unoriginal, unrefreshed, unrestored, used up, vested, vestmented,
washed-up, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, wearied, weariful,
weary, weary unto death, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged,
weary-worn, whacked, wilting, wiped out, world-weary, worn,
worn out, worn-down, worn-out
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
|
|
|