FATIGUED Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

fə-ˈtēgd

Definition of fatigued

as in tired

depleted in strength, energy, or freshness the fatigued hikers paused for some much-needed rest beside the woodland stream

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verb

past tense of fatigue

as in exhausted

to use up all the physical energy of the rescue workers pressed on, though their efforts to reach the miners had almost completely fatigued them

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Recent Examples of fatigued

Adjective

Wembanyama appeared fatigued over the final two games. — Joe Vardon, New York Times, 14 June 2026 Swordsman is taking the role of the fatigued person in this sequence. — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026

Verb

Feeling fatigued by the fashion world, Suea later took a corporate job in the pandemic as a creative producer at Instagram. — Violet Conroy, Vogue, 15 July 2026 Their offerings are so vast that, at times, visitors may be fatigued. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for fatigued

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fatigued

Adjective

His handicapping merited attention and newsletter sales, but Steele soon tired of tipping his own hand to the oddsmakers in Vegas.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
More and more young people are turning toward low- or no-tech lives, tired of the endless scroll most of us face for hours each day.

— Greta Cross, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of tired

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Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to be depleted in 2032, with the combined retirement and disability trust funds exhausted by around 2033 or 2034.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
The result was a landscape repeatedly cleared and exhausted for cotton and other cash crops.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of exhausted

Adjective

As competition intensifies, Walmart and Kroger are lowering prices across the board to appeal to inflation-weary, cost-conscious consumers.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026
Within years, the iconoclastic comic was a weary and defeated man — broke, baggy-eyed, and prematurely old.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of weary

Verb

Prosecutors allege Shakur was killed to avenge the rapper's entourage attacking Davis' nephew, Anderson, a few hours earlier at the MGM Grand after a boxing match involving Mike Tyson.

— CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Forty of those have been delivered, Skibitskiy said, and two are suspected to have been used in Radushne, in the Dnipro Region, on 30 July in an attack that killed at least four children from the same family.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of killed

Verb

Two lawyers can work identical hours in the same organization and experience their jobs in fundamentally different ways — one drained by constant conflict, another by lack of autonomy, another by isolation.

— Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
The song is a lesson about the importance of empathy drained of the feel-good reassurance that might let the listener off the hook.

— Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

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