tired

• (General American) IPA^(key): /taɪɚd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /taɪəd/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d

tired

1. simple past tense and past participle of tire

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

• Adverbs often applied to "tired": physically, mentally, emotionally.

• (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

• I am tired
• sick and tired
• that tired feeling

• drite, tride, tried