Definitions

dead-beat

ADJECTIVE

fatigued

Synonyms

STRONGEST

exhausted listless weary

STRONG

beat bedraggled bushed dropping enervated overtired prostrate spent tuckered wasted worn

WEAK

all in blasé burned out dead dead tired dog-tired dog-weary done in droopy fagged out jaded languid languorous lassitudinous out of gas played-out pooped ready to drop washed out worn-out zonked

Antonyms

STRONGEST

energetic fresh lively untired

STRONG

invigorated unused

WEAK

alert energized keen refreshed vivacious

Example Sentences

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How woefully The Post covers necrology news, the dead beat.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2021

He added in another message: “I am not a dead beat I do not get any disability.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2017

By the world's standards he is a rich dead beat who has never done a lick of work in his 36 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eight of them went straight in, dead beat, and stretched out on the floor near the oil press.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the time I got back I was dead beat.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson