Verb
- 1. tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade, devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
- usage: lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"
- 2. tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue, indispose
- usage: exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
- 3. run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire, consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
- usage: deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
- 4. bore, tire
- usage: cause to be bored
Adjective
- 1. tired (vs. rested), all in(predicate), beat(predicate), bushed(predicate), dead(predicate), aweary, weary, bleary, blear, bleary-eyed, blear-eyed, bored, world-weary, burned-out, burnt-out, careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn, drooping, flagging, exhausted, dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out(prenominal), worn out(predicate), footsore, jaded, wearied, knackered, drained, ragged, travel-worn, unrefreshed, unrested, whacked
- usage: depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
- 2. banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(prenominal), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn, unoriginal (vs. original)
- usage: 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'"
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