tired Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
    jade; fatigue; pall; tire; weary.
    • I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food
  2. verb exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
    wear out; tire; wear down; jade; fag out; weary; fatigue; wear; tire out; outwear; fag; wear upon.
    • We wore ourselves out on this hike
  3. verb deplete
    exhaust; run down; play out; sap; tire.
    • exhaust one's savings
    • We quickly played out our strength
  4. verb cause to be bored
    bore; tire.
  5. adjective depleted of strength or energy
    • tired mothers with crying babies
    • too tired to eat
  6. adjective satellite repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
    well-worn; commonplace; hackneyed; old-hat; timeworn; trite; banal; threadbare; shopworn; stock.
    • 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'

WordNet


Tired adjective
Definitions
  1. Weary; fatigued; exhausted.

Webster 1913