wired
/waɪɹd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
adj
adj
Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
Example Sentences
- "After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep."
- "I drank a jar of coffee / And then I took some of these / And I'm totally wired"
- "I'm walking through streets that are dead / Walking, walking with you in my head / My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired"
- "Too wired to die, too under fire to think"
- "You find out where the rocks are, how the waves are breaking over the rocks or reef. Find out if there's any funny little fish who might be mad - things like that. What we call "getting a place wired." After you get it wired, it's just like... riding waves back in the U.S.A., except you aren't. You're in Africa."
- "I was dealt three of a kind, wired."
Etymology
From wire + -ed.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /waɪɹd/
- British English: /waɪəd/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more wired (comparative)
most wired (superlative)