What does tired mean?

tired means "depleted of strength or energy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tired?

tired has 2 syllables: ti-red. The stress falls on "ti". In IPA it is /ˈtaɪɚd/.

What is another word for tired?

Close synonyms include banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn. 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 tired?

The recorded antonyms are rested.

Is tired a common word?

tired is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

tired — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

adjective

2 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
depleted of strength or energy
“tired mothers with crying babies”
“too tired to eat”
Antonymsrested
Similarall in aweary bleary bored burned-out careworn drooping exhausted
2.
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'”
Synonymsbanal commonplace hackneyed old-hat shopworn stock threadbare timeworn trite well-worn
Similarunoriginal

Other forms of tired

comparative: tiredder·
superlative: tireddest·

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 tired

What does tired mean?: tired means "depleted of strength or energy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.
How many syllables are in tired?: tired has 2 syllables: ti-red. The stress falls on "ti". In IPA it is /ˈtaɪɚd/.
What is another word for tired?: Close synonyms include banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn. 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 tired?: The recorded antonyms are rested.
Is tired a common word?: tired is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tired come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

adjective

2 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
depleted of strength or energy
“tired mothers with crying babies”
“too tired to eat”
Antonymsrested
Similarall in aweary bleary bored burned-out careworn drooping exhausted
2.
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'”
Synonymsbanal commonplace hackneyed old-hat shopworn stock threadbare timeworn trite well-worn
Similarunoriginal

Other forms of tired

comparative: tiredder·
superlative: tireddest·

Questions about tired

What does tired mean?: tired means "depleted of strength or energy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.
How many syllables are in tired?: tired has 2 syllables: ti-red. The stress falls on "ti". In IPA it is /ˈtaɪɚd/.
What is another word for tired?: Close synonyms include banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn. 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 tired?: The recorded antonyms are rested.
Is tired a common word?: tired is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

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