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
Pomerville said she’s fed up with people’s rights being stripped or treated as privileges.
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Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
Now, two numbers have teachers, along with the up and down hand motion that comes with the trend, fed up with their students – even causing some classrooms to ban the phrase altogether.
—Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Many consumers have started to turn their backs on luxury goods; fed up with a lack of ingenuity, skyrocketing daily expenses, and arguably declining quality, shoppers are thinking twice before splurging on designer items.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Young people want better governance and are fed up with suffering from poor services and economies while their leaders get rich around them and inequality grows.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025
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Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
Now, two numbers have teachers, along with the up and down hand motion that comes with the trend, fed up with their students – even causing some classrooms to ban the phrase altogether.
—Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Many consumers have started to turn their backs on luxury goods; fed up with a lack of ingenuity, skyrocketing daily expenses, and arguably declining quality, shoppers are thinking twice before splurging on designer items.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Young people want better governance and are fed up with suffering from poor services and economies while their leaders get rich around them and inequality grows.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fed up
Adjective
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Stein conducted experiments under James’s supervision, but quickly tired of studying her subjects’ responses and preferred talking with them and tracking their characters.—
Daphne Merkin,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The maximally stupid outcome—which, by that very fact, seems all too probable—is that Trump gets bored of the whole affair and stops the air strikes after a putsch has been discovered, but before it’s succeeded.—
Quico Toro,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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The story centers around a bored master of Halloween hijinks named Jack Skellington, who wants to trade in spookiness for Santa Claus.—
Lisa Stardust,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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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 6 Nov. 2025.
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