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

• tired
• drained
• weary

Examples of exhausted in a Sentence

the exhausted runner crossed the finish line and just collapsed

Recent Examples on the Web

After overseeing five issues in a nine-month tenure at the helm, an exhausted Johnson returned to American Medical News full time in 1990, and Chicago Times folded several months later. —Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025

The exhausted face of its owner, a tech executive ending another 14-hour workday, tells quite another. —Pavi Theva, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025

Each has flares of humor and surprise, but there is something cramped about them too, a sense of exhausted expectations, of a genre being pared down to a bundle of tropes. —Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025

Moreover, deep cleaning tasks that involve scrubbing or reorganizing cabinets can take longer than anticipated, leaving you feeling exhausted before bed. —Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for exhausted

• accosted
• costed
• frosted
• unexhausted