Tiered vs. Tired: What's the Difference?
Tiered and Tired Definitions
Tiered
One of a series of rows placed one above another
A stadium with four tiers of seats.
Tired
Exhausted of strength or energy; fatigued.
Tiered
A rank or class.
Tired
Impatient; bored
Tired of the same old sandwiches.
Tiered
To arrange (something) into or rise in tiers
Tier a wedding cake.
Balconies that tier upward.
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Tired
Overused; hackneyed
A tired joke.
Tiered
Simple past tense and past participle of tier
Tired
Simple past tense and past participle of tire
Tiered
Having or made of tiers
A tiered wedding cake
Tiered seating
Tired
In need of some rest or sleep.
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Tiered
Having or arranged in tiers;
A tiered mound
Tired
Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
I'm tired of this
Tired
Overused, cliché.
A tired song
Tired
Ineffectual; incompetent
Tired
Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
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Tired
Depleted of strength or energy;
Tired mothers with crying babies
Too tired to eat
Tired
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
Bromidic sermons
His remarks were trite and commonplace
Hackneyed phrases
A stock answer
Repeating threadbare jokes
Parroting some timeworn axiom
The trite metaphor `hard as nails'
