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tired
- pronunciation:
- taIrd
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
needing sleep or rest; fatigued; sleepy.
- synonyms:
- beat, bushed, dead, done in, exhausted, fatigued, wasted, weary, worn-out
- antonyms:
- fresh, rested, wide awake
- similar words:
- jaded, run-down, spent, worn
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| definition 2: |
weary; impatient; bored (usu. fol. by of).
- synonyms:
- bored, impatient, jaded, sick, weary
- similar words:
- blasé, edgy, fed up, prostrate, world-weary
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| definition 3: |
not new, energetic, or original; overused; stale.
a tired performance- synonyms:
- clichéd, hackneyed, overused, stale, trite, worn
- antonyms:
- fresh
- similar words:
- boring, bromidic, dull, hack, humdrum, old, old hat, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, unoriginal, wearisome, worn-out
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| related words: |
beat, commonplace, dead, insipid, logy, musty, prosaic, stale, stock, trite, weak |
| derivations: |
tiredly (adv.), tiredness (n.) |
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