adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tired cliché (= boring because it has been used so often )
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The story is based on a series of tired clichés.
desperately poor/ill/tired etc
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He was desperately ill with a fever.
look tired/happy/sad etc
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You look tired. You should go to bed.
old though it is/tired though he was etc
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Strange though it may seem, I like housework.
sleepy/tired
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His eyes looked sleepy.
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Her hair was a mess and her eyes were tired.
sleepy/tired ( also weary literary )
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He rubbed his tired eyes and yawned.
though old/tired etc
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The rooms, though small, were pleasant and airy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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He should have felt as tired and inadequate as his age and circumstances dictated, but he did not.
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He didn't even notice the tannoy, he was already as tired as I was and he could barely stand.
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I don't think I was quite as tired as you ....
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He had some poundage on me, and he wasn't as tired as I was.
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It had been a long and exhausting day, and she had to admit that she felt as tired as he looked.
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He looked as tired as a man could be and still stand upright.
how
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I didn't realise how tired I am - and I've got a lot to do tomorrow.
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I hadn't realised how tired I was till I saw that bed.
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He thought how tired she looked.
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I know how tired she must be after the journey.
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She had completely forgotten how tired and hungry she was.
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Until now, he had barely spoken, except to tell me how tired he was.
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She yawned, to show how tired she was, and to her dismay found her excuse was genuine.
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Sitting down, he realized just how tired he was.
just
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Better to say nothing, and try to pretend she was just tired .
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Or maybe he's just tired .
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She must have been just tired , Muriel thought.
more
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She was more tired than she used to be, that was all.
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In this circumstance we feel more tired as the evening and the night wear on.
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The more tired she became the more bitterly she blamed James.
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It is likely that this will make him more tired than usual and so we might guess that he will sleep longer.
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Endill continued to search on his own but was becoming more and more tired .
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The maid - I think her name was Anna looked a little more tired and heavy-eyed after her exertions of the previous evening.
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I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night.
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If you are exhausted, you can be sure the baby is even more tired .
never
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I was never tired now; all my old energy seemed to have returned.
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Artists and poets have never tired of its historic buildings and artisan shops, richly wooded hills and lovely views.
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I also know he was never tired of gazing at me as I lay on my front.
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Hughes, for his part, never tired of pointing out his opponents' errors.
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She was never tired till past midnight.
rather
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I ask this because I really am getting rather tired of providing this service for my wife.
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Then she kindly pushed back, as I was rather tired .
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Faded was the word that sprang to mind - everything had a rather tired quality about it.
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Ten minutes ago I had felt angry, rather tired , and very hard done by.
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It was a revelation in its heyday, but Viz is now starting to look rather tired .
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Put another way much of the conventional wisdom looks rather tired in the face of emerging realities.
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Charlotte got back into London rather late that night, and rather tired , but hooked beyond redemption upon Aurae Phiala.
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He still looked rather tired , having spent several weeks in hospital undergoing treatment for manic depression.
so
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You don't get so tired .
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The men were so tired they found it hard to march.
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I required a longer rest; and could I be driven home by some one, as I felt so tired ?
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And she was so tired of being afraid.
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So tired of being the target of insults. So tired.
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By the time dinner was cleared, Julia thought that she had never felt so tired .
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This never worked because he was always so tired from running about the library all day he fell straight to sleep.
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He had been so tired that he couldn't hear either the telephone or his alarm clock.
too
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He may go too far for his capabilities and get too tired to walk back safely.
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If they are not too tired .
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Claudia accepted his arm round her shoulders as inevitable; she was far too tired to fight him at the moment.
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No one made passes at her; they were all too busy and too tired .
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Or just too tired to do anything but enjoy looking at the pretty lady.
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He was too tired for work but felt he must continue otherwise he would think back to Cranston's words about Benedicta.
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They were too tired to notice as I crept out again.
very
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I often have this type of fantasy when very tired , and that certainly I was.
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She was very tired: every day that week she had got up at five.
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As a result, we feel very tired after a comparatively short time.
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Brian was tired , very tired.
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I was very tired and began to feel ill.
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Instead she felt very , very tired .
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I was very tired , and fell asleep as the three men talked.
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She felt very tired and as she shifted position she detected an ache in her left hip.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be sick (and tired) of (doing) sth
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Gad, I was sick and tired of life.
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I think the archivist who helped me is sick of the sight of me by now.
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I was sick of concealments - those retentions of his.
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I was sick of following baseball through the abbreviated box scores of the international Herald Tribune.
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No one, knowing the Patriarch, could doubt that, after a day of his voice, Zacco was sick of him.
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People were sick of the war.
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We are sick and tired of the proliferation of guns.
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When we first started we were sick of the way many groups would adopt a cool persona for interviews.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Can we stop soon? I'm getting really tired .
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I'm so tired !
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I've never seen him look so tired .
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I tried to watch the news on TV, but I was too tired to stay awake.
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I usually feel too tired to cook dinner after a day at the office.
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Look at their tired little faces.
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Overly tired drivers can be nearly as dangerous as drunk drivers.
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She had tired -looking bags under her eyes.
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the tired parents of newborns
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The kids were really tired , so we sent them to bed.
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They came back from their long walk, tired but relaxed.
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We sat down and stretched out our tired legs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But I feel terribly tired and completely lacking in self-confidence.
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Happily tired , we then crawled off to bed.
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I was tired of the masquerade myself - it had gone too far without me meaning it.
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Let him rest if he becomes tired or frustrated.
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She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died.
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She stayed in the chair as dusk crept over the garden below, too physically and mentally tired to move.
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That night I was just too tired to go to the team party.