fed up with
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3.9
- idiom
- Informal
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- After months of delays, she was fed up with waiting for the package to arrive.
- get fed up with
So I think the EU is sort of fed up with these organizations.
- So I think the EU is sort of fed up with these organizations.
- I think they've got a bad value system, frankly, and I think they get fed up with it after a few years.
- When it comes to being fed up with our current healthcare system and it needing to change, I thought that was fantastic.
- Then Fort Wagen got fed up with the whole negative publicity and they got they basically lifted the bound.
Examples
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People have become more and more fed up with the pollution in our environment.
Fiction book (1997) -
Martha, Ethan's mother and my wife, is fed up with talking about the boy these days.
Fiction book (1994) -
Like eventually we just get so fed up with doing this.
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But people are fed up with the economy.
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I am really fed up with people thinking that all I do is talk about clothes all the time.
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Most Americans today, in a crisis of spirit, are simply fed up with government at all levels.
Fiction book (1995) -
I'm fed up with being second all the time.
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And I think people are getting fed up with the lockdown.
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But in recent years there I think people have got a bit fed up with the arrogance of politicians.
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The people are fed up with the chaos, the warlords and foreign interference.
Synonyms
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1.9
Bored or annoyed because you have had enough of something that keeps happening
522
5.8
Tired of something because you have had too much of it
353
1.0
Feeling not interested and tired from doing the same thing too much
121
3.6
Annoyed, bored, or tired because you have had too much of something
117
5.3
Feeling very annoyed because you have had too much of something
77
1.0
Feeling a little angry or bothered by something small
49
8.0
To be no longer willing to put up with someone or something
44
3.1
Feeling annoyed or a little angry because something keeps bothering you
40
6.3
Feeling bored and tired after doing or seeing something too often
9
9.0
To no longer accept something annoying or unfair
7
3.7
Not happy and a little annoyed
1
8.9
Annoyed and fed up after repeated problems or long delays
Antonyms
How Fed Up
Surface Forms
Morphology
fed + up + with
Although 'fed' (past participle of 'feed') + 'up' suggests a literal sense of being 'filled' or 'satisfied', the extension to 'annoyed or bored' is a conventionalized, metaphorical shift that is not fully predictable from the parts. The preposition 'with' is compositional, but the core idiomatic meaning requires prior exposure, so a B1 learner knowing the constituents would only partly infer the sense.
Etymology
The adjective fed up with comes from the image of someone who has been fed so much they are too full to eat more. That full, fed-up feeling became a way to say someone is 'annoyed' or 'bored' with something that has gone on for too long.