Gruelling vs Tired - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between gruelling and tired

is that gruelling is so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking while tired is in need of some rest or sleep.

(tire).

* grueling

(en adjective)

So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.

* (so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted) backbreaking, exhausting

(head)

(tire)

(en-adj)

In need of some rest or sleep.

Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.

I'm tired of this

Overused]], [[cliché.

a tired song

* Adverbs often applied to "tired": physically, mentally, emotionally.

* exhausted * fatigued * sleepy * See also * See also