different between tired vs bored
tired
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ta??d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ta??d/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)d
Verb
tired
- simple past tense and past participle of tire
Adjective
tired (comparative more tired or tireder, superlative most tired or tiredest)
- In need of some rest or sleep.
- Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
- I'm tired of this
- Overused, cliché.
- a tired song
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) ineffectual; incompetent
Usage notes
- Adverbs often applied to "tired": physically, mentally, emotionally.
Synonyms
- (in need of rest): exhausted, fatigued, languid; See also Thesaurus:fatigued
- (in need of sleep): sleepy; See also Thesaurus:sleepy
- (fed up): See also Thesaurus:annoyed
- (overused): See also Thesaurus:hackneyed
Translations
See also
- I am tired
- sick and tired
- that tired feeling
Anagrams
- drite, tride, tried
tired From the web:
- what tired means
- what tiredness means
- what tiredness can cause
- what tires you
- what tiredness does to your body
- what tiredness feels like
- what's tired in spanish
- what's tired in french
bored
English
Etymology
bore +? -ed
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /b??d/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger)IPA(key): /bo(?)?d/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /bo?d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
- Homophone: board; baud, bawd (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Verb
bored
- simple past tense and past participle of bore
Adjective
bored (comparative more bored, superlative most bored)
- Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
- The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem.
- Perforated by a hole or holes.
Translations
Derived terms
- be bored, Thesaurus:be bored
- boredly
- boredness
- unbored
(Expressions):
- bored out of one's brains
- bored out of one's mind
- bored out of one's tree
- bored stiff
- bored to tears
Related terms
- bore, bore out
- boredom
- boring
- unbore
See also
- ennui
- ennuyé
Anagrams
- Brode, brode, orbed, robed
bored From the web:
- what boredom means
- what bored means
- what boredom does to you
- what boredom can teach us
- what boredom does to your brain
- what boredom
- what boredom can cause
- what boredom does to us
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