fatigue

Meaning

Noun

1. A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
2. A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
3. Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
4. Attributive form of fatigues (“military clothing worn when doing menial tasks”).

Verb

1. To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
2. To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
3. To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
4. To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
5. To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.

Synonyms

weariness

tiredness

exhaustion

tire

lassitude

weary

😩

exhaust

languor

wear out

toil

tired

😫

trouble

jade

fag out

fag

wear

wear upon

wear down

outwear

strain

tire out

labor

frazzle

fatigue duty

distress

lethargy

suffering

tiresomeness

weaken

loss of energy

wilt

get tired

poop out

pain

pall

enervation

langour

debilitation

labour

languidness

melancholy

moil

prostrate

prostration

put to bed

run down

run out

sadness

sale

sick of

sluggishness

sorrow

subtraction

tucker

weakness

wearisomeness

apathy

depression

grief

stress

waste

be feeble

make tired

be weary

lasstitude

tireness

make weary

logginess

loginess

tew

affliction

dark burn

alarm

be exhausted

boredom

brain-fag

calamities

comatose

conk out

consternation

debilitate

debility

deduction

defeat

dejection

demand

depletion

disappointment

discouragement

dismay

drain

drooping

effort

efforts

emaciation

enervate

enfeeble

exertion

fainting

faintness

fatigue-dress

fatigue-duty

gloom

hardship

illness

indolence

knock up

laziness

lifelessness

listlessness

melancholia

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fəˈtiːɡ/

Etymology

From French fatigue, from fatiguer, from Latin fatīgāre (“to weary, tire, vex, harass”).