Tired

Definition: Tired

Tired

Adjective

1. Depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat".

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'".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tired" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Tired

Activity

Industrious, assiduous, diligent, sedulous, notable, painstaking; intent; (attention); indefatigable; (persevering) a; unwearied; unsleeping, never tired; plodding, hard-working; businesslike, workaday.

Fatigue

Ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive, dog-weary, walked off one's legs, tired to death, on one's last legs, played out, hors de combat.

Adjective: fatigued, tired; Verb: weary; drowsy; drooping; Verb: haggard; toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weather-beaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed ; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed, unrestored.

Weariness

Weary, tired; Verb: drowsy; (sleepy); uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life; sick of.

Never hear the last of; be tired of, be sick of, be tired with; Adjective: yawn; die with ennui.

Wit

Old joke, tired joke, flat joke, Joe Miller.

Crosswords: Tired

I'm tired, Trinity (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

I'm tired of being pushed (High Noon; writing credit: Carl Foreman)

When I was hungry, I ate. When I was tired, I slept (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

Too tired to stay awake, but the sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

I got tired of seein' children roamin' the woodlands without food, children roamin' the highways in this here Depression, children sleepin' in old abandoned car bodies in junk heaps (The Night of the Hunter; writing credit: James Agee; Davis Grubb)

I'm so tired (Tired Of Waiting For You; performing artist: The Kinks)

I'm tired of these things, I'm tired of these scars (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah)

I get tired just a little bit ("Respect"; performing artist: Aretha Franklin)

'cuz I was tired of lying (Brick; performing artist: Ben Folds Five)

Sometimes I'm tired, sometimes I'm shot (I Go To Extremes; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Man who run in front of car get tired. (references; author: unknown)

Four-word story of failure: Hired, tired, mired, fired. (references; author: unknown)

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. (references; author: unknown)

Two toads, totally tired. (references; author: unknown)

Tired and Feathered (1965)

Doggone Tired (1949)

Dog Tired (1942)

Tired Feet (1933)

The Tired Business Man (1927)

Tired Of Toen' The Line (performing artist: Rocky Burnette)

Tired Of Waiting For You (performing artist: The Kinks)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Marriage Made in Heaven... or Too Tired for an Affair (reference)

• We Were Tired of Living in a House (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Too Tired to Die (reference)

• Dead Tired (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Tired of Being Lonely (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A Well-fed vicar tired with thinking,/ And fairly overcome by drinking;... / [John Collier]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Not Ellen but Margaret, with fear in her face and tired eyes, alone. Credit: Library of Congress.

Blackcap, madcap! : never tired of play. Credit: Library of Congress.

To enlighten a foreign critic. The Chicago citizen: Sir, we have the ruins, all right, but we are tired of preserving them. They won't keep. Credit: Library of Congress.

"But I'm not tired, discouraged or run down". Credit: Library of Congress.

Tired and foot-weary from his march to Brolo, Sicily, during the invasion of Sicily, Sgt. Norwood Dorman, Benson, North Carolina, falls into the pose of the statue in this memorial to the Italian soldier of World War I] / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps..

Tired out!. Credit: Library of Congress.

The tired soldier - a sketch from life at Petersburg during the siege / Edwin Forbes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Group of tired people resting at state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tired picnickers, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

You will not regard being tired.

We sit round him, and watch him till he is tired.

He had his knapsack on his back, his stick in his hand, and a rough, hard, tired, and fierce look in his eyes, as seen by the firelight

It made him very tired to think that way.

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed

They were all tired on the truck

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Fatigue (feeling very weak and tired). (references)

Feeling tired is another common symptom. (references)

Patients may be tired or notice a general malaise. (references)

Economic History

Canada

Tired of the country's constitutional deadlock, many Canadians prefer to focus on economic issues. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions using "tired": be dead tired ♦ be never tired of looking ♦ be never tired of looking at ♦ be sick and tired ♦ be sick and tired of ♦ be tired ♦ be tired of ♦ be tired of life ♦ be tired with ♦ be tired with running about ♦ become tired ♦ becoming tired ♦ bit tired ♦ dead tired ♦ dog tired ♦ feel tired ♦ get excessively tired of walking ♦ get tired ♦ get tired of ♦ get tired out ♦ grow tired ♦ however much i'm tired ♦ i am tired ♦ i am tired of it! ♦ i am tired out ♦ i'm tired of it! ♦ sick and tired ♦ sick and tired of ♦ tired as hell ♦ tired iron ♦ tired joke ♦ tired of ♦ tired of life ♦ tired out ♦ tired out through lack of sleep ♦ tired to death ♦ very tired. Additional references.

Beginning with "tired": tired-looking, tired-not, Tired-of-leeds, tired-sounding.

Ending with "tired": dog-tired, over-tired.

Containing "tired": rubber-tired wheel.

Afrikaans

moeg. (various references)

Albanian

lodhur, i lodhur (all in, aweary, bored, disgusted, fatigued, flagging, forworn, jaded, languorous, rundown, sick, used up, way-worn, weary, worn out), i këputur (all in, beaten, chivied, dead beat, flake out, languid, washed out, washed up, weary, whacked). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منهك (dog tired, dogsbody, exhausted, exhausting, grueling, haggard, overfatigued, overstrained, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, tiring, toilsome, toil-worn, weary, worn out), ‏مليل (ponderous), ‏متعب (annoying, arduous, bothersome, burdensome, disturbing, exhaustive, fatiguing, inconvenient, laborious, onerous, strenuous, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, trying, vexing, wearisome, weary), ‏مرهق (arduous, burdened, dog tired, exacting, exhausted, exhausting, fatigued, fatiguing, grueling, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressed, oppressive, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, strained, strenuous, stressed, tiring, toil-worn, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, worn, worn out), ‏مبتذل (banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny, everyday, fade, fading, hack, hackneyed, outworn, overused, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, prose, routine, slipshod, stale, stereotyped, tacky, threadbare, trite, trivial, vapid, vulgar, well worn, workaday, worn out), ‏تعبان, ‏سئم (be sick of, jaded, sicken, tire, weary), ‏بايخ (banal, rotten, trite, vapid), ‏بال (decomposed, decrepit, fossil, mangy, musty, old fashioned, outmoded, outworn, rotten, shabby, stale, threadbare, trite, well worn, worn, worn out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уморен (beaten, groggy, washed out, whacked), банален (banal, commonplace, everyday, flatulent, hack, hackneyed, namby-pamby, pedestrian, platitudinous, quotidian, trite, trivial, twice-told, vapid, well worn, worn out), изморен (bushed, careworn, exhausted, forworn, weary). (various references)

Chinese 

疲乏 (weary). (various references)

Czech

unavený (jaded, stale, weary). (various references)

Danish

træt. (various references)

Dutch

moe, vermoeid, mat (dim, frosted, mat). (various references)

Esperanto

laca. (various references)

Faeroese

móður, givin. (various references)

Farsi 

سیر (Garlic, March, Promenade), خستگی (Boredom, Ennui, Exhaustion, Tedium), بیزار (Averse, Loathloth, Weary), باخستگی . (various references)

Finnish

väsynyt (exhausted, fatigued, languid, tired out, weary). (various references)

French

las, fatigué. (various references)

Frisian

ynein, wurch. (various references)

German

müde (languid, limp, sleepily, sleepy, tiredly, waery, wearily, weary, worn). (various references)

Greek 

κουρασμένοσ (washed out, wearied, weary), κουρασμένος (weary). (various references)

Hawaiian

lodhur. (various references)

Hebrew 

מיוגע (fatigued), יגע (exhausted, weary), לאה (exhausted, wearied), להה (exhausted, weary), עיף (exhausted, fatigue, jaded, washed out, weary), נלאה (exhausted, spent, wearied). (various references)

Hungarian

fáradt (aweary, a-weary, deadbeat, exhaust, exhausted, fatigue, fatigued, feel tired, heavy, jaded, languid, to feel tired, used, weary, worn out). (various references)

Indonesian

penat (exhausted, weary), payah (difficult, troublesome), kepenatan (fatigue, weariness), jerih (weary), capai (achieve, attain, reach, weary). (various references)

Irish

tuirseach. (various references)

Italian

stanco (exhausted, jaded, overwrought, warn out, weary). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ぐうぐう寝ちゃう (accomplice, approximately, cohort, completely exhausted, dead tired, enervated, fast, fast asleep, firmly, flabby, flexible, hanging around, hesitatingly, indecisiveness, limp, lolling, more, much, noticeably, Okinawan fortress, pulpy, remarkably, senseless, sloppy, slowly, soft, soppy, sound asleep, sound of rinsing one's mouth, splat!, steadily, tardily, to be unsteady, to fall sound asleep, to reel, to shake, to stray from the right path, turning round and round). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぐたぐた (hanging around). (various references)

Korean 

피로한. (various references)

Malay

lelah. (various references)

Manx

skeeagh (tiresome, tiring, wearying; wearisome), skee (fatigued, weary). (various references)

Maya

ka'ana'an (to be tired). (various references)

Norwegian

trøtt. (various references)

Papiamen

morchá, molestiá, kansá. (various references)

Pig Latin

iredtay.(various references)

Polish

zmęczony. (various references)

Portuguese

cansado (bushed, done, jaded, outworn, played-out, strained, washed-out, weary, whacked, worn-out), fatigado (done, faint, haggard, jaded, outworn, strained, weary, worn-out). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

cansado. (various references)

Romanian

obosit (done, faint, faintly, weak, wearily, weary). (various references)

Russian 

уставать утомленный, усталый (aweary, footworn, forworn, languorous, worn out, worn-out), истомленный (weary). (various references)

Scottish

sgìth (fatigued : sgìth dheth, tired of it). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umoran (washed out, weariful, weary). (various references)

Spanish

cansado (chapfallen, deadbeat, dog-sick, doleful, effete, impotent, jaded, outworn, tiresome, weary). (various references)

Sranan

weri (wear, weather), sonyo. (various references)

Swedish

trött (fatigued, weary). (various references)

Tagalog

pagód. (various references)

Thai

เหน็ดเหนื่อย (exhausted), น่าเบื่อ (arid, banal, boring, dull, humdrum, jejune, tasteless). (various references)

Turkish

tembel (asleep, bonelazy, do nothing, do-little, drone, gold brick, idle, idle fellow, Idler, inactive, indolent, inert, laggard, languid, languorous, lazy, lazy person, lazybones, loon, lounger, slack, slacker, slothful, slouch, slug, sluggard, sluggish, stagnant, torpid, workshy), yorgun (all in, all out, bushed, done, drawn, effete, forworn, jaded, languorous, off, pooped, pooped out, run down, spent, stale, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, wan, washed out, weary, whacked, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle), lâstik tekerli, bitkin (all in, all out, beat, broken down, bushed, dead beat, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, drooping, effete, exhausted, faint, forworn, haggard, jaded, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, run down, spent, stale, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weakly, weary, whacked, wonky, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked), bıkkın (blasé, bored, disgusted, sick, weary). (various references)

Turkmen 

яadaw, argyn. (various references)

Ukrainian

стомлений (all in, all out, aweary, beat, beaten, done, irked, run down, spent, washed out, washed up, weary, whacked, worn out), вичерпаний (exhausted), пересичений (jaded, satiate, sick). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhọc chán, mệt mỏi (jaded, mondayish, wan, wearied, weary), mệt (wearied, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Welsh

wedi blino. (various references)

Yucatec

ch'a'ik ool (get tired). (various references)

Zulu

-khathala (get tired). (various references)

defecto, defessus, fessus, lassam, lassas, lassi, lassis, lasso, lassum, lassus, phesse. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "tired": tireder, tiredest, tiredly, tiredness, tirednesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "tired": antired, attired, overtired, retired, semiretired, untired. (additional references)

Words containing "tired": antireductionism, antireductionisms, antireductionist, antireductionists, retiredly, retiredness, retirednesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tired" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ired, iredd, irred, kired, taire, tarde, tared, tarid, teared, teired, terd, thirde, thred, Tiaret, tibed, ticed, ticred, tider, tierd, tifed, tiged, Tigrida, tiked, tipret, tirad, tiraid, Tirard, tiraz, tird, tiree, tiren, tirer, tiret, tirey, Tirez, tiri, tirked, tirled, tirret, tirric, tirze, tited, titred, toide, toied, toire, toirid, torde, tored, torred, tred, tribed, trief, triked, trirex, trited, Trivedi, trsd, tsiree, turd, turde, tured, turid, twired, tyred, tyrrid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tried.

-1 letter: diet, dire, dirt, dite, edit, ired, ride, rite, tide, tied, tier, tire.

-2 letters: die, dit, ire, red, rei, ret, rid, ted, tie.

-3 letters: de, ed, er, et, id, it, re, ti.

+1 letter: airted, credit, dieter, direct, direst, dither, divert, dotier, driest, editor, girted, mitred, redipt, reedit, retied, rident, rifted, rioted, stride, tidier, tiered, tinder, tirade, tirled, trepid, triced, trined, triode.

+2 letters: airdate, airthed, antired, aridest, astride, attired, bedirty, bestrid, birthed, bistred, bruited, cordite, credits, demerit, deorbit, detrain, dextrin, diaster, dictier, diester, dietary, dieters, diether, dilater, diluter, dimeter, diopter, dioptre, diorite, diptera, directs, dirtied, dirtier, dirties, disrate, dissert, ditcher, dithers, dithery, ditsier, ditzier, diverts, dottier, driblet, drifted, drifter, dustier, editors, erudite, flirted, fritted, fruited, girthed, grifted, gritted, inditer, intrude, kirtled, merited, midterm, mitered, nitride, orbited, outride, partied, peridot, pirated, predict, preedit, printed, proteid, quirted, radiate, readmit, recited, redbait, redtail, reedits, resited, retiled, retimed, retired, retried, righted, riptide, riveted, skirted, sortied, spirted, staider, steroid, stirred, storied, strider, strides, striped, strived, studier, tardier, tardies, tarried, tendril, theroid, thirled, thrived, tiaraed, tiddler, tiderip, tidiers, tierced, timider, tinders, tindery, tirades, tireder, tiredly, traiked, trailed, trained, triaged, tribade, tricked, trident, trifled, trigged, trilled, trimmed, trindle, triodes, tripled, tripped, turdine, twirled, untired, untried, verdict, writhed.