Crossword Dictionary
TIRED
tired - a
depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
Synonyms
all in, aweary [archaic], beat, beaten, bleary, burned-out (or burnt-out), bushed, dead, done, drained, exhausted, fatigued, jaded, knackered [British], limp, logy (also loggy), played out, pooped [slang], prostrate, spent, tapped out, tuckered (out), washed-out, wearied, weary, wiped out, worn, worn-out
Examples
“I know you must be tired, so I will let you rest.â€
“The toddlers were both tired and cranky.â€
“She was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room.â€
Etymology
"exhausted, fatigued, weary," early 15c., past-participle adjective from tire (v.).
tire (v.1)
"to weary," also "to become weary," Old English teorian (Kentish tiorian) "to fail, cease; become weary; make weary, exhaust," of uncertain origin; according to Watkins possibly from Proto-Germanic *teuzon, from a suffixed form of PIE root *deu- (1) "to lack, be wanting." Related: Tired; tiring.
- ATTACKING
- ATTENUATED
- ATTENUATING
- BOTHERED
- BOTHERING
- BOTHERSOME
- CONFINED
- CONFINING
- CRABBY
- DAMAGED
- DAMAGING
- DEADENED
- DEADENING
- DEBILITATED
- DEBILITATING
- DESTROYED
- DESTROYING
- DIDACTIC
- DIDACTICAL
- DIMINISHED
- DIMINISHING
- DISABLED
- DISABLING
- DISARMING
- DISQUALIFIED
- DISQUALIFYING
- DISRUPTED
- DISRUPTING
- EMASCULATED
- EMASCULATING
- ENERVATED
- ENERVATING
- ENFEEBLING
- EVISCERATING
- EXHAUSTED
- EXHAUSTIBLE
- EXHAUSTING
- EXTENUATING
- FRUSTRATED
- FRUSTRATING
- HAMPERING
- HAMSTRINGING
- HAMSTRUNG
- HARMFUL
- HARMLESS
- HINDERING
- HOSPITALIZING
- HURTFUL
- IMMOBILIZING
- IMMODERATE
- INJURED
- INJURING
- INJURIOUS
- MAIMED
- MAIMING
- MARRED
- MARRING
- OBSTRUCTED
- OBSTRUCTING
- OVERWHELMING
- PARALYZED
- PARALYZING
- PICKLING
- PROSTRATING
- RELAXED
- RELAXING
- SABOTAGING
- SPOILED
- STERILIZED
- STERILIZING
- SUBVERTING
- TIRING
- UNDERMINING
- UPSETTING
- VANDALIZING
- WEAKENED
- WEAKENING
- WRECKED