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- Dictionarytiring/ˈtʌɪərɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. causing one to need rest or sleep; fatiguing: "it had been a tiring day"
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B1. making you feel tired: I've had a very tiring day. Looking after the kids is extremely tiring. Synonyms. exhausting. wearing. wearying. Fewer examples. They don't come down to London much because it's too tiring with the kids. She's a lovely woman, even if she can be a bit tiring at times. Looking after small children can be very tiring.
adjective. tir· ing ˈtī-riŋ. ˈtī-ər-iŋ. Synonyms of tiring. : causing weariness or lack of strength or energy. a tiring schedule. a very tiring workout. Karlowicz, a fifth-grade teacher, said she ran in last year's Ragnar Relay Cape Cod, which gave her some familiarity with racing on back-to-back days. "It's so tiring ," she said.
Tiring things make you feel exhausted or worn out. It's tiring to carry an 80-pound dog through the snow when he refuses to walk. Tiring things make you tired, either physically or mentally. Digging a hole big enough to plant a tree is tiring, and so is studying for a big math test.
If you describe something as tiring, you mean that it makes you tired so that you want to rest or sleep. It had been a long and tiring day. Travelling is tiring.
Definition of tiring adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. A covering for a wheel, usually made of rubber reinforced with cords of nylon, fiberglass, or other material and filled with compressed air. 2. A hoop of metal or rubber fitted around a wheel. [Middle English, iron rim of a wheel, probably from tir, attire, short for atire, from attiren, to attire; see attire .] tire 3. (tīr) Archaic.
(uncountable) Action of the verb to tire.
tiring. Word family (noun) tiredness (adjective) tired tireless tiresome tiring (verb) tire (adverb) tirelessly. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English tir‧ing /ˈtaɪərɪŋ $ ˈtaɪr-/ S3 adjective making you feel that you want to sleep or rest We’ve all had a long tiring day.
v.t. to reduce or exhaust the strength of, as by exertion; make weary; fatigue: The long walk tired him. to exhaust the interest, patience, etc., of; make weary; bore: Your stories tire me. v.i. to have the strength reduced or exhausted, as by labor or exertion; become fatigued; be sleepy.
The earliest known use of the word tiring is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for tiring is from 1594, in the writing of William Shakespeare, playwright and poet. tiring is formed within English, by derivation.
