dictionary definitions for "tired"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [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 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]


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