Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Tired \Tired\, a.
Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
Tire \Tire\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tired}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tiring}.] [OE. teorien to become weary, to fail, AS. teorian
to be tired, be weary, to tire, exhaust; perhaps akin to E.
tear to rend, the intermediate sense being, perhaps, to wear
out; or cf. E. tarry.]
To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail;
to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon
tires.
Source : WordNet®
tired
adj 1: depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying
babies"; "too tired to eat" [ant: {rested}]
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'" [syn: {banal}, {commonplace},
{hackneyed}, {old-hat}, {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare},
{timeworn}, {trite}, {well-worn}]