Definition of tired

"tired" in the verb sense

1. tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade

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

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

deplete

"exhaust one's savings"

"We quickly played out our strength"

4. bore, tire

cause to be bored

"tired" in the adjective sense

1. tired

depleted of strength or energy

"tired mothers with crying babies"

"too tired to eat"

2. banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

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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Quotations for tired

I could lie down like a tired child,
And weep away the life of care
Which I have borne, and yet must bear. [ Shelley ]

Tired of the last, and eager of the new. [ Prior ]

The tired ox plants his foot more firmly. [ Proverb ]

Every morsel to a satisfied hunger
Is only a new labor to a tired digestion. [ South ]

Night is the time for rest;
How sweet, when labours close,
To gather round an aching breast
The curtain of repose.
Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head
Down on our own delightful bed. [ James Montgomery ]

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! [ Young ]

O, he's as tedious
As is a tired horse, a railing wife;
Worse than a smoky house; I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me,
In any summer-house in Christendom. [ William Shakespeare ]

Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels
When the tired player shuffles off the buskin;
A page of Hood may do a fellow good
After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin. [ Lowell ]

Tired he sleeps, and Life's poor play is over. [ Pope ]

Nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Behold, we live through all things, - famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery.
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body, - but we cannot die.
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn, -
Lo, all things can be borne! [ Elizabeth Akers Allen ]

A bad woman is the sort of woman a man never gets tired of. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

A tired traveller must be glad of an ass, if he have not a horse. [ Proverb ]

Lovers are never tired of each other; they always speak of themselves. [ La Roche ]

A husband is a sort of promissory note - a woman is tired of meeting him. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Music, which gentler on the spirit lies than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. [ Tennyson ]

I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question. [ Yogi Berra ]

And to tired limbs and over-busy thoughts,Inviting sleep and soft forgetfulness. [ Wordsworth ]

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Love is eternally awake, never tired with labour, nor oppressed with affliction, nor discouraged by fear. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Happy is the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. [ Hare ]

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves. [ Colton ]

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. [ Jeremy Collier ]

I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more. As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired. [ Bailey ]

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect. [ Hazlitt ]

Man is placed in this world as a spectator; when he is tired with wondering at all the novelties about him, and not till then, does he desire to be made acquainted with the causes that create those wonders. [ Goldsmith ]

So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep. [ H. W. Beecher ]

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired. But let another person try my way, and see where he will come out. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone. [ Leigh Hunt ]

This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

tired in Scrabble®

The word tired is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters tired:

TRIED
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RITED
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word tired

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In tired

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tired in Words With Friends™

The word tired is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters tired:

TRIED
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RITED
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TIRED
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word tired

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In tired

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Words containing the sequence tired

Words that start with tired (5 words)

Word Growth involving tired

Shorter words in tired

re ire ired

re red ired

re ire tire

Longer words containing tired

antireduction antireductionism antireductionisms

antireduction antireductionist antireductionists

antireduction antireductions

antireductive

attired reattired

attired unattired

overtired overtiredness

retired semiretired

tireder

tiredest

tiredly

tiredness overtiredness

untired