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tired
feeling that you want to sleep or rest:
• I was really tired the next day. • the tired faces of the children
exhausted
extremely tired:
• I was exhausted after the long trip home. • He sat down, exhausted. • She immediately fell into an exhausted sleep.
worn out
[ not before noun ] very tired because you have been working hard:
• With three small children to care for, she was always worn out.
weary
written tired because you have been travelling, worrying, or doing something for a long time:
• weary travellers • a weary sigh • He looks tired and weary after 20 years in office.
fatigued
formal very tired:
• They were too fatigued to continue with the climb. • Because of her illness, she often became fatigued.
drained
[ not before noun ] very tired and feeling as if all your energy has gone:
• Afterwards, he felt drained, both physically and mentally.
bushed/beat
[ not before noun ] informal very tired:
• I’m bushed. I think I’ll go to bed early. • I’m beat. I don’t think I’ll go for a run tonight.
knackered
British English , pooped American English [ not before noun ] informal very tired. Knackered is a very informal use - do not use it in polite conversation:
• By the time I got home I was absolutely knackered.
shattered
[ not before noun ] British English informal extremely tired:
• When I first started teaching, I came home shattered every night.
dead
spoken extremely tired, so that you cannot do anything but sleep:
• I was absolutely dead by the time I got home.
almost asleep
sleepy
wanting to sleep very soon, so that your eyes start to close:
• I’m feeling quite sleepy. I think I’ll go to bed. • She rubbed her sleepy eyes.
drowsy
starting to sleep because you are in a warm place, have drunk too much alcohol, or have taken medicine:
• The tablets can make you feel drowsy. • She was beginning to feel a little drowsy after all the food and wine she had consumed.
can’t keep your eyes open/can hardly keep your eyes open
to feel so tired that you find it difficult to stay awake:
• I’d better get some rest – I can’t keep my eyes open. • He had been driving all night, and he could hardly keep his eyes open.
Longman-Thesaurus
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adj. needing rest VERBS be, feel, look, seem | become, get | leave sb, make sb The walk left me quite tired out. ADV. awfully, bone (informal), dead, desperately, extremely, really, terribly, very Polly suddenly felt bone tired. | a bit, a little, pretty, quite, rather | just Of course I'm not ill. I'm just tired. | enough He felt tired enough to go to sleep standing up. | mentally, physically | visibly | out PREP. from I'm still a bit tired from the journey. PHRASES tired and drawn He looked tired and drawn. tired of sb/sth: feeling you have had enough VERBS be | become, get, grow (formal) She had grown heartily tired of his company. ADV. heartily, really, very | a bit, a little, rather PHRASES sick and tired (informal) I'm sick and tired of listening to you whine.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary