-
Trending Now:
More Trending:
- scaramouch non sequitur admiral's mast calumny kakistocracy
- ALL
Definition of wired
1 : reinforced by wire (as for strength)
2a : furnished with wires (as for electric connections)b : connected to a telecommunications network and especially to the Internetc : characterized by a connection to the Internet the wired world
3 : bound with wire a wired container
4 : having a wirework netting or fence
5 : feverishly excited
Explore M-W
Examples of wired in a Sentence
No more caffeine for me, I'm pretty wired.
a group of wired teenagers
Recent Examples of wired from the Web
-
The household analysis found a slightly better, but still troubling, situation, with nearly half of the 118 million US households lacking any wired Internet choice at the FCC's broadband standard of 25Mbps.
-
To prevent people from trying to do so, Instagram will continue to display blocked comments on the phones of the people who wrote them, Wired reports.
-
The underlying technology powering these two filters comes from Facebook’s (fb, -1.36%) artificial intelligence system used to trim offensive posts and spam, according to a Wired report.
-
Wired reports at least 100 cases have been reported in the eastern tip of New York’s Long Island.
-
From Wired’s Andy Greenberg: How An Entire Nation Became Russia's Test Lab for Cyberwar •
-
The best articulation of the strength of Mueller’s team comes from Wired’s overview.
-
Instagram has launched a tool so influencers can more clearly display when they have been paid to promote a product, Wired reports.
-
Box turtles are hard-wired to range a specific home territory.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'wired'. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of wired
15th century
WIRED Defined for English Language Learners
wired
playDefinition of wired for English Language Learners
-
: very excited or full of nervous energy
-
: connected to the Internet
Learn More about wired
-
See words that rhyme with wired Nglish: Translation of wired for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of wired for Arabic speakers
Seen and Heard
What made you want to look up wired? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
Writing? Check your grammar now!