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born tired

born tired adjective: chronically tired; asthenic.

Adjective

born tired (not comparable)

  1. Chronically tired; asthenic.
    • God creates the human family, but the mother is the instrument of creation and the child of the tired mother will always be born tired, and there is nothing so pitiful as the child born tired.1909, Michigan State Farmers' Institutes, page 203
    • To the latter reference has been made so repeatedly that it will suffice here to say that the asthenic child is “born tired".1926, Max Seham, The Tired Child, page 169
  2. Lazy; shiftless.
    • But, lord! Young Har never finishes anything – too tired! 'Ang me, sir, if I don't think 'e were born tired!2009, Jeffery Farnol, The Definite Object: A Romance of New York, page 7
    • New South Wales is quite literally regarded as a place where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest; that is, a paradise for uncles who have turned dishonest and for nephews who are born tired.1910, G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World

Questions about born tired

What does born tired mean?
Born tired means chronically tired; asthenic.
What part of speech is born tired?
Born tired is an adjective.

Words near born tired in the dictionary

  1. born loser
  2. born losers
  3. Born rigidity
  4. Born rule
  5. born sleeping
  6. born tired
  7. born to the purple
  8. born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
  9. Born's rule
  10. born-again
  11. born-again virgin

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