as in tired
having one's patience, interest, or pleasure exhausted
fed up with the noise and bustle of the big city, the family decided to try country life
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Recent Examples of fed up
Burnt out and fed up with her untameable class of 10-year-olds, Maria tussles with an increasingly naughty student, Danny (played wonderfully by young newcomer Eddie Waller), and makes a rash decision to keep him captive in her basement.
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
Across party lines, the American people are overwhelmingly fed up with rising drug costs and desperate for meaningful action out of Washington.
—Rep. Greg Murphy, M.d., MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
For some Americans, fed up with the status quo, such destruction may seem exciting.
—Russell Muirhead, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2025
They’re just fed up of being helpless.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
Across party lines, the American people are overwhelmingly fed up with rising drug costs and desperate for meaningful action out of Washington.
—Rep. Greg Murphy, M.d., MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
For some Americans, fed up with the status quo, such destruction may seem exciting.
—Russell Muirhead, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2025
They’re just fed up of being helpless.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fed up
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More pertinently, if Iroegbunam or Gueye tired or did not screen passes correctly (shown below), Rogers and Emiliano Buendia had huge spaces to receive and turn, owing to Everton’s deep centre-backs refusing to step out.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Also, Ka-young is bored and curious to see what Iblis will do.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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In face-to-face meetings, moderators could get a sense when people were bored, when the meeting should speed up or when the discussion should slow down.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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By that point, however, the players were growing sick and tired of a wildly popular coach who had the full support of GM Bob Gainey, and team owner Tom Hicks.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 June 2025
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He’s got a base, but there are all these polls that show the youth are really sick and tired.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Fed up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fed%20up. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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