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
For six days, gay men and women, transgender people, bikers, street kids and others fed up with police harassment fought back.
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Michael Collins, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
Meghan McCain is fed up with contemporary daytime talk shows.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Feb. 2026
Bus stop battle Amber Kreitzer is fed up with the dangerous conditions, which have forced her to walk and wait in the street for the bus on Edmondson Avenue in West Baltimore.
—Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
But regular people are already getting fed up.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 28 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for fed up
Michael Collins, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
Meghan McCain is fed up with contemporary daytime talk shows.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Feb. 2026
Bus stop battle Amber Kreitzer is fed up with the dangerous conditions, which have forced her to walk and wait in the street for the bus on Edmondson Avenue in West Baltimore.
—Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
But regular people are already getting fed up.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 28 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for fed up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fed up
Adjective
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Nanos must also be tired of talking, though that one is on him.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Feb. 2026
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Aiona has grown tired of spending his retirement telling park-goers to stop feeding the chickens.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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On a welcome muddy day in January — a warmish respite between polar vortexes and snowstorms — a small work crew hoisted 20-foot long steel pipes into a hole being bored hundreds of feet deep in the scraggly field across from Union Station in New Haven.—
Jan Ellen Spiegel,
Hartford Courant,
23 Feb. 2026
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May 21 – June 20 Getting too bored is a bad idea at the moment.—
Tarot.com,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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And victims of an entire system that protected the rich, powerful elites, and that's what Americans are absolutely sick and tired of.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
4 Jan. 2026
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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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“Fed up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fed%20up. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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