exhausted

adjective

ex·​haust·​ed ig-ˈzȯ-stəd 

1

: completely or almost completely depleted of resources or contents

… crops are grown in the resulting field for a year or a few years until the soil is exhausted, and then the field is abandoned …

—Jared Diamond

2

: depleted of energy : extremely tired

I mean I was just exhausted, totally exhausted. I could barely walk up a flight of stairs without panting and wheezing.

—Anthony DeCurtis

Synonyms

• all in
• aweary [archaic]
• beat
• beaten
• bleary
• burned-out
• burnt-out
• bushed
• dead
• done
• drained
• fatigued
• jaded
• knackered [British]
• limp
• logy
• loggy
• played out
• pooped [slang]
• prostrate
• spent
• tapped out
• tired
• tuckered (out)
• washed-out
• wearied
• weary
• wiped out
• worn
• worn-out

Examples of exhausted in a Sentence

the exhausted runner crossed the finish line and just collapsed

Recent Examples on the Web

Coming into the new year exhausted and disengaged won’t set the stage for career success. —Elizabeth Pearson, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024

Isolated and exhausted, the mother is frustrated, and miserable. —Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024

But Leonard is sick of play-acting the martyr, especially in front of his exhausted wife, Emma (Uma Thurman), and seizes the chance to turn the camera into a confessional. —Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024

Even a mild bout of the common cold could lead to people feeling exhausted. —Katia Hetter, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1