tired

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. depleted of strength or energy“tired mothers with crying babies”“too tired to eat”
  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'”Synonyms: banalcommonplacehackneyedold-hatshopwornstock(a)threadbaretimeworntritewell-worn
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Webster's Dictionary (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]

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