English adjective: tired | |||
1. | tired depleted of strength or energy | ||
Samples | Tired mothers with crying babies. Too tired to eat. | ||
Similar | all in, aweary, beat, blear, blear-eyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, bored, burned-out, burnt-out, bushed, careworn, dead, dog-tired, drained, drawn, drooping, exhausted, fagged, fatigued, flagging, footsore, haggard, jaded, knackered, played out, raddled, ragged, spent, travel-worn, unrefreshed, unrested, washed-out, wearied, weary, whacked, world-weary, worn, worn out, worn-out | ||
Antonyms | rested | ||
2. | tired repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | ||
Samples | 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'. | ||
Synonyms | banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite, well-worn | ||
Similar | unoriginal | ||
Antonyms | original | ||