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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. depleted of strength or energy;
- Example: "tired mothers with crying babies"
- Example: "too tired to eat"

2. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
- Example: "bromidic sermons"
- Example: "his remarks were trite and commonplace"
- Example: "hackneyed phrases"
- Example: "a stock answer"
- Example: "repeating threadbare jokes"
- Example: "parroting some timeworn axiom"
- Example: "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
[syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tired \Tired\, a.
   Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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,
       tired, trite, well-worn]