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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
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lassitude
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French lassitude, from Latin lassit?d? (“faintness, weariness”), from lassus (“faint, weary”), perhaps for *ladtus, and thus akin to English late.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?læs??tju?d/
Noun
lassitude (countable and uncountable, plural lassitudes)
- Lethargy or lack of energy; fatigue.
- Listlessness or languor.
Quotations
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Chapter VII
- Rufus Dawes, though his eyelids would scarcely keep open, and a terrible lassitude almost paralysed his limbs, eagerly drank in the whispered sentence.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 25
- "Then it's No, darling?" he said at last.
- She gave a gesture of lassitude. She was exhausted.
- "The studio is yours. Everything belongs to you. If you want to bring him here, how can I prevent you?"
- 2004, "Is Slacking the Only Way to Survive the Office?," The Scotsman (Edinburgh), 16 Aug,
- In order to appear busy, one should pace around the office clutching files.... The best part of this ancient ritual is that it tends to make one's colleagues look away—just in case you and your papers are going to interrupt their own lassitude.
- 2004, Rob Hughes, "Soccer: The Olympic Flame Running Low on Fuel," International Herald Tribune (Paris), 11 Aug.,
- At Euro 2004 and the 2002 World Cup, Blatter commented this week, many stars were physically and mentally exhausted, and left an aftertaste of nonchalance and lassitude.
Translations
Further reading
- lassitude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- lassitude in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- lassitude at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Etymology
From Latin lassit?d? (“faintness, weariness”), from lassus (“faint, weary”).
Noun
lassitude f (plural lassitudes)
- lassitude
Further reading
- “lassitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- dualistes
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