burnout
/ˈbɜː(ɹ)naʊt/
Frequency: 3.15 in modern English
Meaning
noun
The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A feeling of being overwhelmed and exhausted from stress and overwork, rendering one cynical, uncaring or depression.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Someone whose brains have figuratively been burned out by drugs.
American usage; Countable; Slang; Uncountable
noun
The shutoff of a rocket motor after exhausting its fuel or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "High on the list of proposals educators said they support to combat burnout – after raising salaries and hiring more teachers — was providing additional mental health and behavioral support for students, according to the 2022 NEA survey."
- "Ten years of this soul-sucking job would turn any ambitious young person into a burnout."
- "There’s no way we can hire that guy. He’s a total burnout—he can't do the work."
- "Then in his late 30s, he [Neal Cassady] was already a visibly ravaged shadow of Kerouac’s heroically defiant rebel and well on his way to becoming the kind of babbling burnout you don’t want to sit next to on any bus trip, magical or not."
Etymology
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- American usage
- Slang