tiredadj.1
/ˈtʌɪəd/, U.S. /ˈtaɪ(ə)rd/ 1. Weakened or exhausted by exertion, etc.; fatigued, wearied; also, sick or weary of, impatient with (something); slang, habitually disinclined to exertion, incorrigibly lazy.
a. in the predicate. Also in slang phrase to make (someone) tired (originally U.S.): to get on the nerves of, irritate.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective]
wearyc825
asadc1306
ateyntc1325
attaintc1325
recrayed1340
methefula1350
for-wearya1375
matea1375
taintc1380
heavy1382
fortireda1400
methefula1400
afoundered?a1425
tewedc1440
travailedc1440
wearisomec1460
fatigate1471
defatigatec1487
tired1488
recreant1490
yolden?1507
fulyeit?a1513
traiked?a1513
tavert1535
wearied1538
fatigated1552
awearya1555
forwearied1562
overtired1567
spenta1568
done1575
awearied1577
stank1579
languishinga1586
bankrupt?1589
fordone1590
spent1591
overwearied1592
overworn1592
outworn1597
half-dead1601
back-broken1603
tiry1611
defatigated1612
dog-wearya1616
overweary1617
exhaust1621
worn-out1639
embossed1651
outspent1652
exhausted1667
beaten1681
bejaded1687
harassed1693
jaded1693
lassate1694
defeata1732
beat out1758
fagged1764
dog-tired1770
fessive1773
done-up1784
forjeskit1786
ramfeezled1786
done-over1789
fatigued1791
forfoughten1794
worn-up1812
dead1813
out-burnta1821
prostrate1820
dead beat1822
told out1822
bone-tireda1825
traiky1825
overfatigued1834
outwearied1837
done like (a) dinner1838
magged1839
used up1839
tuckered outc1840
drained1855
floored1857
weariful1862
wappered1868
bushed1870
bezzled1875
dead-beaten1875
down1885
tucked up1891
ready (or fit) to drop1892
buggered-up1893
ground-down1897
played1897
veal-bled1899
stove-up1901
trachled1910
ragged1912
beat up1914
done in1917
whacked1919
washy1922
pooped1928
shattered1930
punchy1932
shagged1932
shot1939
whipped1940
buggered1942
flaked (out)1942
fucked1949
sold-out1958
wiped1958
burnt out1959
wrung out1962
juiced1965
hanging1971
zonked1972
maxed1978
raddled1978
zoned1980
cream crackered1983
the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > irritate [verb (transitive)]
gremec893
grillc897
teenOE
mispay?c1225
agrillec1275
oftenec1275
tarya1300
tarc1300
atenec1320
enchafec1374
to-tarc1384
stingc1386
chafe?a1400
pokec1400
irec1420
ertc1440
rehete1447
nettlec1450
bog1546
tickle1548
touch1581
urge1593
aggravate1598
irritate1598
dishumour1600
to wind up1602
to pick at ——1603
outhumour1607
vex1625
bloody1633
efferate1653
rankle1659
spleen1689
splenetize1700
rile1724
roil1742
to put out1796
to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw1823
roughen1837
acerbate1845
to stroke against the hair, the wrong way (of the hair)1846
nag1849
to rub (a person, etc.) up the wrong way1859
frump1862
rattle1865
to set up any one's bristles1873
urticate1873
needle1874
draw1876
to rough up1877
to stick pins into1879
to get on ——1880
to make (someone) tiredc1883
razoo1890
to get under a person's skin1896
to get a person's goat1905
to be on at1907
to get a person's nanny1909
cag1919
to get a person's nanny-goat1928
cagmag1932
peeve1934
tick-off1934
to get on a person's tits1945
to piss off1946
bug1947
to get up a person's nose1951
tee1955
bum1970
tick1975
a1400–50 Alexander 1009 All þe ȝeris of oure ȝouthe es ȝare syne passid And we for-traualid & terid [Dubl. MS. for-tyred].]
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 28 The hors was tyryt and mycht no forthir pas.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. x The horses..wyll soone be tyred and sore bete that they may nat draw.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 32v Medicines which refreshe them that are wery or tyrede.
1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 251 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 268 I am verry tyrit wett and cauld.
1573 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 150 A horse that wase leafte ther tyard.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iii. 24 The man sir, that when gentlemen are tired giues them a sob, and rests them. View more context for this quotation
1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 34 Thro' the Greatness of the Perspiration they grow tyr'd.
1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin xxxvii ‘The dinner waits, and we are tired:’ said Gilpin— ‘So am I!’
1852 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) II. 196 I am very tired; and the tireder I am, the less I sleep.
c1883 C. H. Hoyt Bunch of Keys i, in America's Lost Plays (1941) IX. 13 That makes me tired!
1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children vii. 51 I got tired out with him at last.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 15 Apr. 2/3 He ‘lived nowhere, did nothing, and, in fact, he was born tired’, was what he told the inspector when he was arrested, and it was a graphic summary of a worthless life.
1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories iv. 65 Such talk made Daly tired, and he said so.
1925 W. J. Locke Great Pandolfo xiii. 172 ‘Women like you,’ said Myrtilla a trifle sourly, ‘make me tired.’
1950 ‘P. Woodruff’ Island of Chamba viii. 124 They make me tired... Things are bound to get worse.
b. in attributive use.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > weary of person or thing
wearyc1275
sick1603
tired1672
full up1871
jack1885
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 45 Wes neuer sugeorne wer set na on that snaill tyrit.
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades viii. 138 Thy chare, thy driuer, and thy seate, a tiered countenaunce shew.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 129 The tyred Magistrates asked them, whether they had not Halters.
1746–7 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 211 The tired shepherd has imposed silence on his pipe.
1871 J. O. Brookfield Influence II. 74 Nothing is more delicious than the atmosphere of a country house to a tired-out Londoner in the month of August.
c. tired Tim (also Timothy), usually associated with weary Willie: the names of two tramps, characters in the comic magazine Illustrated Chips; hence both used as nicknames for tramps or other work-shy people. Also attributive.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp
harlot?c1225
raikera1400
vacabond1404
vagrant1444
gangrela1450
briber?c1475
palliard1484
vagabondc1485
rogue1489
wavenger1493
hermit1495
gaberlunzie1508
knight of the field1508
loiterer1530
straggler1530
runagate1534
ruffler1535
hedge-creeper1548
Abraham man1567
cursitor1567
runner1567
walker1567
tinker1575
traveller1598
Tartar1602
stravagant1606
wagand1614
Circumcellion1623
meechera1625
hedge-bird1631
gaberlunzie man1649
tramp1664
stroller1681
jockey1685
bird of passage1717
randy1724
tramper1760
stalko1804
vagabondager1813
rintherout1814
piker1838
pikey1838
beachcomber1840
roadster1851
vagabondizer1860
roustabout1862
bum1864
migratory1866
potter1867
sundowner1868
vag1868
walkabout1872
transient1877
Murrumbidgee whaler1878
rouster1882
run-the-hedge1882
whaler1883
shaughraun1884
heather-cat1886
hobo1889
tussocker1889
gay cat1893
overlander1898
stake-man1899
stiff1899
bindle-stiff1900
dingbat1902
stew-bum1902
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
skipper1925
Strandlooper1927
knight of the road1928
hobohemian1936
plain turkey1955
scrub turkey1955
derro1963
jakey1988
crusty1990
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > avoiding duty, work, or exertion > one who
skulkc1320
loundererc1425
old soldier1722
malingerer1785
skulker1785
shirker1799
shirk1818
slink1824
schemer1843
sconcer1843
scrimshanker1882
scrimshank1886
sooner1892
Weary Willie1896
slacker1898
slackster1901
sugarer1904
work-shy1904
gold brick1905
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
lead-swinger1917
piker1917
gold-bricker1919
slinker1919
poler1938
skiver1941
1899 Comic Cuts 6 May 1 Two gents of the name of Weary Willy and Tired Tim.]
1906 Daily Chron. 15 Feb. 3/5 Heroes of the Tired Timothy stamp.
1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 27 Comic papers..brought home to us the picturesque language of Weary Willy and Tired Tim (the genial tramps—whence these words are frequently used as appellatives for ‘tramps’ in general).
1930 H. Herd Diagnosis of Mental Deficiency 10 Mental defectives are the ‘weary Willies and tired Tims’ par excellence.
1932 W. S. Churchill Let. 6 Feb. in Ld. Boothby Recoll. Rebel (1978) vi. 86 These two old tired Tims of the Commons have ceased to command my allegiance.
1972 J. Porter Meddler & her Murder xii. 157 With Miss Jones in..her Tired-Tim-and-Weary-Willie mood, there was no temptation to linger.
d. the tired businessman: a cliché, often used with satirical allusion to the short working hours and pleasure-loving habits popularly ascribed to businessmen.The phrase is said to have been used by Mark Twain in 1896.
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society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > one engaged in amusement or entertainment
player1340
dalliera1568
pastimer1608
recreationist1819
pleasure-seeker1825
pleasurer1833
the tired businessman1913
looner1969
1913 Dress & Vanity Fair Nov. 37/2 ‘I mean simply this, my dear,’ replied the Tired Business Man.
1927 A. Huxley Proper Stud. 186 From the fetish-worshipper to the metaphysician, from the tired business man to the mystic..every type of human being can find in Catholicism the spiritual nourishment which he or she requires.
1940 I. Brown in Best One-act Plays 1939 141 Oh, how I've longed to be a Tired Business Man once more—office at ten, out at twelve-thirty, back at three, sign the letters, off home!
1969 Listener 20 Mar. 399/1 We often use the cliché of the tired businessman to define the low response..that sustains leg-shows.
2.
a. transferred and figurative. Worked out, exhausted, used up; in quot. 1548, exhausting. Also, of language, literature, etc.: hackneyed, trite.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > causing weariness or exhaustion
wearyc1315
soakingc1440
tired1548
moilingc1566
wearisome1593
tiring1594
overtiring1598
tiresome1598
defatigating1634
defatigable1654
fatigable1656
fatiguing1708
fatiguesomea1734
jading1766
fagging1787
wearying1798
exhausting18..
taversome1808
harassing1833
killing1850
trashing1861
trachling1902
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > having lost freshness
fade1303
welkeda1325
walloweda1400
forfaded1413
overworn1565
faded1574
tarnished1716
tired1766
weltered1855
swivelled1898
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [adjective] > using up completely > used up completely
spentc1440
spent1620
exhaust1621
exhausted1656
tired1766
run-out1795
used up1837
played-out1856
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > self-evident truth, axiom > [adjective] > trite, well-worn
worn1569
seta1616
well-worn1621
copybook1848
overdriven1888
tired1951
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xlix In a long fight and tyred battaile.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xx. 64 I must here lay down my tired pen!
1766 Museum Rusticum 6 440 When the upper stratum is tired and foul, the owner may..turn down the worn-out soil.
1899 Times 16 June 4/1 The Paris, to use an expressive Americanism, was a tired ship.
1899 Times 4/2 The fact that the Paris was a tired ship was one result of the continual striving for records and averages.
1951 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 521/1 The start of the paper was promising enough, for Greenwood collected a group of writers around him equal to deserving that tired word ‘brilliant’.
1956 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 30 June 34/1 It [sc. a book] is (to use a tired phrase) history made interesting.
1966 Listener 28 Apr. 630/3 The Pipeline..turned out to be as tired and cliché-ridden a spy story as any I have heard.
b. Of food, flowers, etc.: limp with long exposure, no longer fresh. Of clothes: crumpled, shapeless, or baggy with long wear.
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1897 Daily News 28 July 8/4 The muslin gowns begin to look more than a little tired.
1909 Daily Chron. 3 May 4/7 Colour and shape remind one of a tired cabbage leaf.
1933 Notes & Queries 26 Aug. 130/1 Today people speak of stale vegetables or fruits as ‘tired’.
1934 E. Bowen Cat Jumps 252 Tired dance dresses.
1947 H. Nicolson Diary 9 May (1968) 97 The spring-garden has lost its early bloom... The primroses are looking a trifle tired.
1958 Spectator 15 Aug. 222/1 The last batch of eggs I got from the local grocer turned out to be very tired.
1963 Times 11 June 10/6 In the present heat, merchants are reluctant to pay high prices for ‘tired’ fish.
1974 A. Lurie War between Tates (1977) v. 117 He is ill-dressed in a tired grey turtleneck sweater and sagging work pants.
1977 G. Marton Alarum 16 Chris read..occasionally munching on a very tired cheese sandwich.
c. tired and emotional: jocular euphemism for ‘drunk’.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk
fordrunkenc897
drunkena1050
cup-shottenc1330
drunka1400
inebriate1497
overseenc1500
liquor1509
fou1535
nase?1536
full1554
intoxicate1554
tippled1564
intoxicated1576
pepst1577
overflown1579
whip-cat1582
pottical1586
cup-shota1593
fox-drunk1592
lion-drunk1592
nappy1592
sack-sopped1593
in drink1598
disguiseda1600
drink-drowned1600
daggeda1605
pot-shotten1604
tap-shackled1604
high1607
bumpsy1611
foxed1611
in one's cups1611
liquored1611
love-pot1611
pot-sick1611
whift1611
owl-eyed1613
fapa1616
hota1616
inebriated1615
reeling ripea1616
in one's (or the) pots1618
scratched1622
high-flown?1624
pot-shot1627
temulentive1628
ebrious1629
temulent1629
jug-bitten1630
pot-shaken1630
toxed1635
bene-bowsiea1637
swilled1637
paid1638
soaken1651
temulentious1652
flagonal1653
fuddled1656
cut1673
nazzy1673
concerned1678
whittled1694
suckey1699
well-oiled1701
tippeda1708
tow-row1709
wet1709
swash1711
strut1718
cocked1737
cockeyed1737
jagged1737
moon-eyed1737
rocky1737
soaked1737
soft1737
stewed1737
stiff1737
muckibus1756
groggy1770
muzzeda1788
muzzya1795
slewed1801
lumpy1810
lushy1811
pissed1812
blue1813
lush1819
malty1819
sprung1821
three sheets in the wind1821
obfuscated1822
moppy1823
ripe1823
mixed1825
queer1826
rosined1828
shot in the neck1830
tight1830
rummy1834
inebrious1837
mizzled1840
obflisticated1840
grogged1842
pickled1842
swizzled1843
hit under the wing1844
obfusticatedc1844
ebriate1847
pixilated1848
boozed1850
ploughed1853
squiffy?1855
buffy1858
elephant trunk1859
scammered1859
gassed1863
fly-blown1864
rotten1864
shot1864
ebriose1871
shicker1872
parlatic1877
miraculous1879
under the influence1879
ginned1881
shickered1883
boiled1886
mosy1887
to be loaded for bear(s)1888
squiffeda1890
loaded1890
oversparred1890
sozzled1892
tanked1893
orey-eyed1895
up the (also a) pole1897
woozy1897
toxic1899
polluted1900
lit-up1902
on (also upon) one's ear1903
pie-eyed1903
pifflicated1905
piped1906
spiflicated1906
jingled1908
skimished1908
tin hat1909
canned1910
pipped1911
lit1912
peloothered1914
molo1916
shick1916
zigzag1916
blotto1917
oiled-up1918
stung1919
stunned1919
bottled1922
potted1922
rotto1922
puggled1923
puggle1925
fried1926
crocked1927
fluthered1927
lubricated1927
whiffled1927
liquefied1928
steamed1929
mirackc1930
overshot1931
swacked1932
looped1934
stocious1937
whistled1938
sauced1939
mashed1942
plonked1943
stone1945
juiced1946
buzzed1952
jazzed1955
schnockered1955
honkers1957
skunked1958
bombed1959
zonked1959
bevvied1960
mokus1960
snockered1961
plotzed1962
over the limit1966
the worse for wear1966
wasted1968
wired1970
zoned1971
blasted1972
Brahms and Liszt?1972
funked up1976
trousered1977
motherless1980
tired and emotional1981
ratted1982
rat-arsed1984
wazzed1990
mullered1993
twatted1993
bollocksed1994
lashed1996
1967 Private Eye 29 Sept. 9/4 Mr Brown had been tired and overwrought on many occasions.]
1981 Lynn & Jay Yes Minister I. iii. 72 Another paper's headline was Hacker tired and emotional after embassy reception.
1982 Financial Times 21 May 12/4 Each lock is battery powered so that if the hotel has a power failure the tired and emotional guest can still make [= reach] his bed.
1986 Daily Tel. 10 Dec. 13/2 Sensing that Penrose's efforts might have left him tired and emotional, the four Eye men called at the Mirror building.
Compounds
tired-eyed, tired-faced, tired-looking adjs.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > showing signs of weariness or exhaustion
wearyOE
haggard1605
toil-worn1752
tired-faced1895
tired-eyed1905
worn-looking1918
1841 L. Hunt Seer (1864) 85 Happy in their tired-heartiness to get to the first bit of holiday ground they can reach.
1895 ‘C. Holland’ My Japanese Wife 91 We leave the terrace, with its lingering crowds of tired-faced holiday-makers.
1905 Daily Chron. 30 Aug. 4/7 The tired-eyed conductor took her fare.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 3 Dec. 1/3 Vases of somewhat tired-looking pink chrysanthemums.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
tiredadj.2
/ˈtʌɪəd/, U.S. /ˈtaɪ(ə)rd/ Fitted or furnished with a tire or tires; chiefly as the second element in a combination, as iron-tired. See also tyred adj. at tyre n.5 Derivatives.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [adjective] > fitted with tyres
shod1481
tyred1884
tired1894
1894 L. Robinson Wild Traits (1897) iii. 79 A pneumatic-tired sulky is worth several seconds in the mile to an American trotter.
1896 C. Allen Papier Mâché 118 With a weighty parade of iron-tired Juggernaut justice, they marched in state.
1912 J. Masefield in Eng. Rev. Feb. 414 Four newly-tired cartwheels hung to cool.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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