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# tiredness

«tiredness» in Mova's school dictionary: **The feeling of needing rest or sleep; being tired** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (tiredness — no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

The feeling of needing rest or sleep; being tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiredness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In health lessons, tiredness comes from not enough sleep, too much screen time before bed, illness or hard exercise; children of 9–10 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep. Tiredness makes it hard to learn, pay attention and keep calm. In safety, tiredness makes accidents more likely, for example for drivers. Phrases: «feel tiredness», «tiredness and headaches», «overcome by tiredness».

### examples

- Tiredness made it hard to concentrate in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiredness/#x1)
- After the long walk, tiredness hit me all at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiredness/#x2)
- Too little sleep causes tiredness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiredness/#x3)
- Screens before bed can lead to tiredness the next day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiredness/#x4)
- Tiredness can make you grumpy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiredness/#x5)
- Drivers should stop and rest if they feel tiredness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiredness/#x6)
- A short rest helped with my tiredness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiredness/#x7)
- Feeling tiredness all the time can be a sign of illness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiredness/#x8)
- “It is a weariness and a tiredness,” said mac an Da’v. “It is a long yawn without sleepiness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiredness/#x9)

### note

Uncountable: «tiredness», not «a tiredness». Adjective «tired»; the opposite is feeling «rested» or «full of energy». Similar: «fatigue» (more formal).

### In the corpora

- [A hangover is how the body feels the day after drinking too much alcohol: headache, tiredness, thirst and feeling sick.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/14/)
- [Tiredness and worry are usually not about you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/5/)
- [A grown-up's tiredness or bad mood is usually not about the child and not a sign they are cross with them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/20/)
- [Yawning, heavy eyes and clumsiness are signs of tiredness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/12/)
- [Tiredness and hunger make tempers shorter for children and adults.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tiredness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiredness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.