tired

/'taiəd/

Thân thiện

A tired mother rocks her crying baby to sleep.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Depleted of strength or energy: Feeling a need for rest or sleep; weary.
   • Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse: Lacking freshness or interest; hackneyed.

Usage and Examples

• Depleted of strength or energy:

  • She was too tired to go out after work.
  • The tired hiker collapsed onto the ground.
  • He felt tired from the long journey.

• Repeated too often; overfamiliar:

  • The politician's speech was full of tired clichés.
  • That's a tired old joke that nobody laughs at anymore.
  • The film's plot felt tired and unoriginal.

Advanced Usage

• "to be tired of (something/doing something)": To be bored with or annoyed by something because you have experienced too much of it.

  • I am tired of hearing the same excuses.
  • She was tired of doing all the work herself.

• "to be tired out": To be completely exhausted.

  • After the marathon, he was completely tired out.

• "to grow/get tired": To become weary or bored.

  • The audience grew tired of the lengthy presentation.

Variants and Related Words

• Tire (verb): To make or become weary.
  • The long walk tired the children.
• Tireless (adjective): Having or showing great effort or energy.
  • She is a tireless campaigner for human rights.
• Tiresome (adjective): Causing one to feel bored or annoyed.
  • He found the paperwork a tiresome chore.

Synonyms

• Weary: Feeling or showing tiredness.
• Exhausted: Drained of one's physical or mental resources; very tired.
• Fatigued: Worn out, wearied.
• Hackneyed: Lacking significance through having been overused.
• Threadbare: (Of a phrase, idea, etc.) used so often that it is no longer effective.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• "Sick and tired of": Very annoyed or bored with something.
  • I'm sick and tired of your complaints.
• "Tired and emotional": A euphemism for being drunk.
  • The celebrity gave a tired and emotional interview.
• "To be dog-tired": To be extremely tired.
  • I was dog-tired after moving all the furniture.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. 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'
2. depleted of strength or energy
   • tired mothers with crying babies
   • too tired to eat