tire

1. 1.

   hoop that covers a wheel

   “automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air”

   Synonymstyre

   Broaderhoop

   Narrowercar tirepneumatic tirewagon tire

Other forms of tire

plural

tires·

past tense

tired·

present participle

tiring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tire

What does tire mean?

tire means "lose interest or become bored with something or somebody". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tire?

tire has 2 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˈtaɪɚ/.

What is another word for tire?

Close synonyms include pall, weary, fatigue, jade, wear upon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of tire?

The recorded antonyms are refresh.

Is tire a common word?

tire is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with tire?

3 words rhyme with tire. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.