Synonyms for exhaustion

Most common

fatigue · tiredness · weariness · lassitude · debility · debilitation · depletion · collapse

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Definitions

1. n. 1

   Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.

   I ran in the marathon to exhaustion, then I collapsed and had to be carried away.

2. n. 2

   The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.

   We worked the mine to exhaustion, there's nothing left to extract.

3. n. 3

   The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.

Related words

Word family

exhaust exhaustedness

Phrases

operational exhaustion

Forms

Plural

exhaustions → fatigues, wearinesses, tirednesses, lassitudes…

Example sentences

• fatigue He was pale with fatigue after his sleepless night.
• tiredness Relaxing with loved ones makes the tiredness fade.
• weariness Tom was suddenly overcome by a great weariness.
• lassitude We can't abandon our principles out of moral lassitude.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

7 letters

fatigue², languor

8 letters

collapse², draining², emptying³, debility⁴

9 letters

depletion³, tiredness³, weariness³, lassitude, inanition

10 letters

absorption³, enervation

11 letters

consumption³, dissipation⁴, prostration³

12 letters

debilitation, enfeeblement

13 letters

exhaustedness

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fatigue² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

épuisement

Italiano

spossatezza