Tired vs. Bored — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tired and Bored
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Tired
Exhausted of strength or energy; fatigued.
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Bored
To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill.
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Tired
Impatient; bored
Tired of the same old sandwiches.
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Bored
To form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing.
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Tired
Overused; hackneyed
A tired joke.
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Bored
To make a hole in or through something with or as if with a drill
"three types of protein that enable the cells to bore in and out of blood vessels" (Elisabeth Rosenthal).
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Tired
Simple past tense and past participle of tire
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Bored
To proceed or advance steadily or laboriously
A destroyer boring through heavy seas.
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Tired
In need of some rest or sleep.
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Bored
To make weary by being dull, repetitive, or tedious
The movie bored us.
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Tired
Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
I'm tired of this
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Bored
Past tense of bear1.
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Tired
Overused, cliché.
A tired song
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Bored
A hole or passage made by or as if by use of a drill.
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Tired
Ineffectual; incompetent
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Bored
A hollow, usually cylindrical chamber or barrel, as of a firearm.
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Tired
Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
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Bored
The interior diameter of a hole, tube, or cylinder.
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Tired
Depleted of strength or energy;
Tired mothers with crying babies
Too tired to eat
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Bored
The caliber of a firearm.
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Tired
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
Bromidic sermons
His remarks were trite and commonplace
Hackneyed phrases
A stock answer
Repeating threadbare jokes
Parroting some timeworn axiom
The trite metaphor `hard as nails'
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Bored
A drilling tool.
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Bored
One that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious.
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Bored
Simple past tense and past participle of bore
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Bored
Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem.
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Bored
Perforated by a hole or holes.
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Bored
Tired of the world; bored with life.
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Bored
Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence. Opposite of interested.
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Bored
Tired of the world;
Bored with life
Strolled through the museum with a bored air
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Bored
Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence;
His blase indifference
A petulent blase air
The bored gaze of the successful film star
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