Tiring vs. Tired

Tiringnoun

(uncountable) The action of tiring.

Tiredverb

simple past tense and past participle of tire

Tiringnoun

(falconry) Bits of bone and tough organic material from a corpse given to hawks to abate their hunger.

Tiredadjective

In need of some rest or sleep.

Tiringadjective

That tires or tire.

‘Carrying my bags up four flights of stairs is very tiring.’;

Tiredadjective

Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.

‘I'm tired of this’;

Tiringadjective

producing exhaustion;

‘an exhausting march’; ‘the visit was especially wearing’;

Tiredadjective

Overused, cliché.

‘a tired song’;

Tiredadjective

ineffectual; incompetent

Tiredadjective

Weary; fatigued; exhausted.

Tiredadjective

depleted of strength or energy;

‘tired mothers with crying babies’; ‘too tired to eat’;

Tiredadjective

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'’;