noun
Meaning 1
The state of being tired.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
tiredness
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noun
Meaning 2
temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he was hospitalized for extreme fatigue
- growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in the execution of their athletic skills
- weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fatigue, weariness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: temporary state
Narrower terms: eyestrain, asthenopia, jet lag, exhaustion, grogginess, loginess, logginess
History
Etymology
From Middle English tiredness, terednesse, equivalent to tired + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
86 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: lodhje — state of being tired
- Arabic: إِرْهَاق (ʔirhāq) — state of being tired
- Arabic: تَعَب (taʕab) — state of being tired
- Armenian: հոգնածություն (hognacutʻyun) — state of being tired
- Assamese: ভাগৰ (bhagor) — state of being tired
- Azerbaijani: yorğunluq — state of being tired
- Belarusian: сто́ма (stóma) — state of being tired
- Belarusian: сто́мленасць (stómljenascʹ) — state of being tired
- Belarusian: змо́ранасць (zmóranascʹ) — state of being tired
- Bulgarian: умо́ра (umóra) — state of being tired
- Catalan: fatiga — state of being tired
- Catalan: cansament — state of being tired
- Chinese Mandarin: 疲勞 /疲劳 (píláo) — state of being tired
- Czech: únava — state of being tired
- Danish: træthed — state of being tired
- Dutch: vermoeidheid — state of being tired
- Estonian: väsimus — state of being tired
- Finnish: väsymys — state of being tired
- French: fatigue — state of being tired
- Galician: fatiga — state of being tired
- Galician: cansazo — state of being tired
- Galician: canseira — state of being tired
- Georgian: დაღლილობა (daɣliloba) — state of being tired
- German: Müdigkeit — state of being tired
- German: Ermüdung — state of being tired
- Greek: κούραση (koúrasi) — state of being tired
- Hebrew: עייפות (ayefút) — state of being tired
- Hindi: थकान (thakān) — state of being tired
- Hindi: थकावट (thakāvaṭ) — state of being tired
- Hungarian: fáradtság — state of being tired
- Icelandic: þreyta — state of being tired
- Ilocano: bannug — state of being tired
- Irish: tuirse — state of being tired
- Italian: sfinitezza — state of being tired
- Italian: stanchezza — state of being tired
- Japanese: 疲れ (tsukare) — state of being tired
- Japanese: 疲労 (hirō) — state of being tired
- Kazakh: шаршау (şarşau) — state of being tired
- Kazakh: шаршағандық (şarşağandyq) — state of being tired
- Korean: 피로 (piro) — state of being tired
- Korean: 피곤 (pigon) — state of being tired
- Central Kurdish: ماندوێتی (mandwêtî) — state of being tired
- Kyrgyz: чарчоо (carcoo) — state of being tired
- Kyrgyz: чарчагандык (carcagandık) — state of being tired
- Latin: lassitūdō — state of being tired
- Latvian: nogurums — state of being tired
- Lithuanian: nuovargis — state of being tired
- Macedonian: умор (umor) — state of being tired
- Macedonian: замор (zamor) — state of being tired
- Mongolian: ядаргаа (jadargaa) — state of being tired
- Norwegian Bokmål: tretthet — state of being tired
- Persian: خستگی (xastegi) — state of being tired
- Polish: zmęczenie — state of being tired
- Portuguese: cansaço — state of being tired
- Portuguese: fadiga — state of being tired
- Romanian: oboseală — state of being tired
- Russian: уста́лость (ustálostʹ) — state of being tired
- Russian: утомле́ние (utomlénije) — state of being tired
- Serbo-Croatian: у́мор — state of being tired
- Serbo-Croatian: úmor — state of being tired
- Slovak: únava — state of being tired
- Slovene: utrujenost — state of being tired
- Spanish: fatiga — state of being tired
- Spanish: cansancio — state of being tired
- Swedish: trötthet — state of being tired
- Tagalog: pagod — state of being tired
- Tajik: хастагӣ (xastagi) — state of being tired
- Telugu: అలసట (alasaṭa) — state of being tired
- Thai: ความล้า (kwaam-láa) — state of being tired
- Turkish: yorgunluk — state of being tired
- Ottoman Turkish: یورغونلق (yorgunluk) — state of being tired
- Ottoman Turkish: كلال (kelal) — state of being tired
- Turkmen: ýadawlyk — state of being tired
- Ukrainian: уто́ма (utóma) — state of being tired
- Ukrainian: вто́ма (vtóma) — state of being tired
- Ukrainian: уто́мленість (utómlenistʹ) — state of being tired
- Ukrainian: вто́мленість (vtómlenistʹ) — state of being tired
- Ukrainian: сто́мленість (stómlenistʹ) — state of being tired
- Ukrainian: змо́реність (zmórenistʹ) — state of being tired
- Urdu: تکان (takān) — state of being tired
- Uzbek: charchaganlik — state of being tired
- Uzbek: horganlik — state of being tired
- Vietnamese: mệt mỏi — state of being tired
- Volapük: fen — state of being tired
- Walloon: hodance — state of being tired
- Walloon: nåjhisté — state of being tired