Tired

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tired \Tired\, a.
     Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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