exhausted

adjective

ex·​haust·​ed ig-ˈzȯ-stəd 

1

: completely or almost completely depleted of resources or contents

… crops are grown in the resulting field for a year or a few years until the soil is exhausted, and then the field is abandoned …

—Jared Diamond

2

: depleted of energy : extremely tired

I mean I was just exhausted, totally exhausted. I could barely walk up a flight of stairs without panting and wheezing.

—Anthony DeCurtis

Synonyms of exhausted

• tired
• drained
• weary

Examples of exhausted in a Sentence

the exhausted runner crossed the finish line and just collapsed

Recent Examples on the Web

Not in the bone-tired sense but in the exhausted sense. —Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 9 May 2026

But Butcher spent much of season four confined to a hospital bed, and as the season neared its end, Urban wasn’t exhausted. —Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026

Maxey has looked exhausted in the first two games of the series and scored just five points in the second half after scoring 19 in the game’s first 24 minutes. —Tony Jones, New York Times, 7 May 2026

The Canadiens have to be rather exhausted after winning that first-round series. —David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for exhausted

• accosted
• costed
• frosted
• unexhausted