n.
- extreme tiredness resulting from mental or physical exertion or illness.
▸
[
with modifier]
a lessening in one's response to or enthusiasm for something, caused by overexposure:
election fatigue.
- weakness in metal or other materials caused by repeated variations of stress.
-
(fatigues)
menial non-military tasks performed by a soldier.
▸a group of soldiers ordered to do such a duty.
-
(fatigues)
loose-fitting clothing of a sort worn by soldiers.
v.
(fatigues, fatiguing, fatigued)
cause to suffer fatigue.
Derivative
- fatiguability
(also fatigability)
n.
- fatiguable
(also fatigable)
adj.
Etymology
C17 (in the sense ‘task that causes weariness’): from Fr. fatigue (n.), fatiguer (v.), from L. fatigare ‘tire out’, from ad fatim, affatim ‘to satiety or surfeit’.