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| Main Entry: | fatigue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiredness |
| Synonyms: | debility, dullness, ennui, exhaustion, feebleness, heaviness, languor, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, weakness, weariness, brain fag, burnout, enervation, faintness, fatigation, overtiredness |
| Antonyms: | energy, freshness, liveliness, spirit, vigor |
| Main Entry: | fatigue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
| Synonyms: | burn out*, bush*, debilitate, deplete, disable, drain, droop, drop, enervate, exhaust, fizzle, flag, knock out*, languish, peter out*, prostrate, sag, sink, succumb, take, weaken, wear down, weary, bedraggle, conk out*, fag, jade, overtire, poop, poop out*, tucker |
| Antonyms: | energize, refresh, envigorate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Synonyms: |
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-verbs
be fatigued; yawn (get sleepy) [more]; droop, sink, flag; lose breath, lose wind; gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint, succumb., fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, harass, exhaust, knock up, wear out, prostrate., tax, task, strain; overtask, overwork, overburden, overtax, overstrain.
-adjectives
fatigued; weary [more]; drowsy [more]; drooping; haggard; toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weatherbeaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed [U.S.]; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed, unrestored., worn, worn out; battered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered., breathless, windless; short of breath, out of breath, short of wind; blown, puffing and blowing; short-breathed; anhelose; broken winded, short- winded; dyspnaeal, dyspnaeic., ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive, dog-weary, walked off one's legs, tired to death, on one's last legs, played out, hors de combat., fatiguing; tiresome, irksome, wearisome; weary, trying.
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| Antonyms: | refreshment |
| Main Entry: | boredom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disinterest; weariness |
| Synonyms: | apathy, detachment, disgust, distaste, doldrums, dullness, ennui, fatigue, indifference, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, monotony, sameness, tediousness, tedium, unconcern, yawn, flatness, incuriosity, irksomeness, jadedness, lack of interest, pococurantism, taedium vitae, tiresomeness, world-weariness |
| Antonyms: | excitement, interest, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | do in |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy; exhaust |
| Synonyms: | assassinate, bankrupt, bump off*, butcher*, cool*, dispatch, do away with*, eliminate, execute, fatigue, finish, frazzle*, kill, knock out*, liquidate, murder, put away*, ruin, shatter, slaughter, slay, tire, wear out, weary, wreck, dilapidate |
| Antonyms: | bear, create, invent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enervate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
| Synonyms: | debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary, jade |
| Notes: | energize means to cause to be alert or to invigorate while enervate means to weaken mentally or morally enervate means 'drain energy or vigor from' (from Latin enervare 'weaken by extraction of the sinews') and innervate means 'supply with energy' (Latin in- 'in' and nervus 'strength, vigor, energy') innervate means 'to stimulate or give nervous energy,' the opposite of enervate |
| Antonyms: | activate, animate, empower, energize, invigorate, strengthen, liven |
| Main Entry: | enfeeble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very weak |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, blunt, cripple, debilitate, deplete, devitalize, diminish, disable, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, sap, undermine, unhinge, unnerve, weaken, wear out |
| Antonyms: | strengthen |
| Main Entry: | ennui |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boredom |
| Synonyms: | apathy, blues, dejection, depression, dissatisfaction, doldrums, dumps*, fatigue, languor, lassitude, listlessness, melancholy, sadness, surfeit, tedium, weariness, yawn*, blahs, ho hums, lack of interest, languidness, satiety, spiritlessness |
| Antonyms: | energy, enthusiasm, excitement, liveliness, vigor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exhaustion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiredness |
| Synonyms: | collapse, consumption, debility, expenditure, fatigue, feebleness, lassitude, prostration, weariness, burnout, debilitation, enervation |
| Antonyms: | energy, liveliness, readiness, vigor |
| Main Entry: | harass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | badger |
| Synonyms: | annoy, attack, bait, bedevil, beleaguer, bother, bug*, bullyrag*, burn*, despoil, devil*, distress, disturb, eat*, exasperate, exhaust, fatigue, foray, get to*, give a bad time, give a hard time, gnaw*, harry, hassle, heckle, hound*, intimidate, irk, irritate, jerk around, macerate, maraud, noodge, pain*, perplex, persecute, pester, plague, raid, rattle one's cage, ride, strain, stress, tease, tire, torment, trouble, try, vex, weary, work on, worry |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, facilitate, help, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hardship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal burden |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, asperity, austerity, calamity, case, catastrophe, curse, danger, destitution, difficulty, disaster, discomfort, distress, drudgery, fatigue, grief, grievance, hard knocks*, hazard, injury, labor, mischance, misery, misfortune, need, oppression, peril, persecution, privation, rainy day, rigor, sorrow, suffering, toil, torment, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, vicissitude, want, worry, Herculean task, rotten luck, tough break, tough luck, uphill battle |
| Antonyms: | advantage, assistance, benefit, blessing, ease, favor, gain, good, profit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | languor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lethargy |
| Synonyms: | apathy, dullness, fatigue, idleness, inaction, laziness, listlessness, sluggishness, torpor, weakness, inactivity, tiredness |
| Main Entry: | lassitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lethargy |
| Synonyms: | apathy, dullness, exhaustion, fatigue, idleness, inaction, languor, laziness, listlessness, sleepiness, sluggishness, torpor, weakness, weariness, inactivity, tiredness |
| Main Entry: | overdo |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go to extremes; carry too far |
| Synonyms: | amplify, belabor, exaggerate, fatigue, hype, magnify, overburden, overload, overplay, overrate, overreach, overstate, overwork, pressure, puff*, run riot*, stretch, wear down*, be intemperate, bite off too much, do to death, drive oneself, go overboard, go too far, lay it on, make federal case, not know when to stop, overestimate, overindulge, overtax, overtire, overuse, overvalue, pile on, run into the ground, strain oneself, talk big, wear oneself out |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exhaust, weary |
| Synonyms: | annoy, bore, burn out*, bush*, collapse, crawl, debilitate, deject, depress, disgust, dishearten, displease, distress, drain, droop, drop, enervate, ennui, exasperate, fail, faint, fatigue, flag, fold, harass, irk, irritate, nauseate, overburden, overwork, pain, pall, peter out*, prostrate, sap, sicken, sink, strain, tax, vex, weaken, wear, wear down, wear out, wilt, worry, yawn*, dispirit, fag, give out, go stale, grow weary, jade, overstrain, overtax, poop out*, put to sleep |
| Antonyms: | activate, energize, invigorate, refresh, fire up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | weary |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make tired |
| Synonyms: | annoy, bore, burden, cloy, debilitate, depress, disgust, dishearten, distress, drain, droop, enervate, enfeeble, exasperate, exhaust, fade, fail, fall off, fatigue, flag, glut, harass, irk, nauseate, oppress, overwork, pain, plague, sap, sicken, sink, strain, tax, tire, vex, weaken, wear down, wear out, weigh, cause ennui, drowse, fag, grow tired, have had enough, jade, leave one cold, lose interest, make discontented, take it out of, tire out, try the patience of, tucker out |
| Antonyms: | activate, energize, enliven |
| Main Entry: | burn out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become drained |
| Synonyms: | exhaust, fatigue, run down, tire, wear down, wear out, become exhausted, get tired, grow weary, run out of steam, stress out |
| Main Entry: | sleepiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | torpor |
| Synonyms: | fatigue, laziness, lethargy, drowsiness, somnolence, tiredness |
| Main Entry: | sluggishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apathy |
| Synonyms: | fatigue, idleness, inaction, languor, laziness, lethargy, drowsiness |
| Main Entry: | drain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove liquid; remove supply |
| Synonyms: | abate, bankrupt, bleed, consume, debilitate, decrease, deplete, devitalize, diminish, dissipate, divert, draft, dry, empty, evacuate, exhaust, expend, fatigue, finish, get rid of, impoverish, lessen, milk*, pump, quaff, reduce, sap, siphon, spend, strain, suck, swallow, tap, tax, waste, wear, wear down, weary, withdraw, bleed dry, catheterize, draw off, drink up, filter off, free from, get last drop, gulp down, pump out, suck dry, tire out, use up |
| Antonyms: | fill, pour |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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