Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bone-tired

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English

Syllables: bone-tired
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Very tired; so tired one feels it in one’s bones.

Example Sentences

"Having escaped from the Lac-house in Varanavat after setting fire to it, when the Pandavas, along with their mother Kunti, reached across the Ganga, they were bone-tired and thirsty."
"However, if you are like many college students and day after day you don't get sufficient sleep or you live under constant stress, you are likely to feel unrelentingly worn out and bone tired."

Inflected Forms

more bone-tired (comparative) most bone-tired (superlative) bone tired (alternative)

Synonyms

bleareyed bleary bleary-eyed bone-tired bushed tired out spent wrecked drained dog-tired dog-weary exhausted

Questions

What does bone-tired mean?: Very tired; so tired one feels it in one’s bones.

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