different between tired vs untirable

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ta??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ta??d/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)d

Verb

tired

1. simple past tense and past participle of tire

Adjective

tired (comparative more tired or tireder, superlative most tired or tiredest)

1. In need of some rest or sleep.
2. Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.

   I'm tired of this

3. Overused, cliché.

   a tired song

4. (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

English

Etymology

un- +? tirable

Adjective

untirable (comparative more untirable, superlative most untirable)

1. Incapable of being tired; never tiring.
   • c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were,

     To an untirable and continuate goodness […]

   • 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, London: John W. Parker, Volume I, Book II, Chapter 6, §4, pp. 313-314,^[2]

     The Germans […] plod on from day to day, and year to year—the most patient, untirable, and persevering of animals.

   • 1965, Thom Gunn, “Misanthropos” IX (retitled as “Memoirs of the World” in Poems 1950-1966: A Selection, London: Faber & Faber, 1969, p. 41,^[3]

     […] I laboured

     to become a god of charm,

     an untirable giver.

Synonyms

• tireless

Anagrams

• Butlerian, untriable