Synonyms for burnout
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : burn-out |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɜrnˌaʊt |
Top 10 synonyms for burnout Other synonyms for the word burnout
- brain fag
- burnout
- clinical depression
- collapse
- crackup
- depression
- dopehead
- doper
- drug abuser
- drug fiend
- druggie
- emotional collapse
- enervation
- ennui
- exhaustion
- expenditure
- faintness
- fatigation
- fatigue
- feebleness
- freak
- heaviness
- hophead
- languor
- lassitude
- listlessness
- mental collapse
- narcotics addict
- nervous exhaustion
- nervous prostration
- neurasthenia
- neurosis
- overtiredness
- prostration
- shattered nerves
- space cadet
- tiredness
- weariness
Définition of burnout
Origin :- also burn-out, "drug user," by 1972, slang, from the verbal phrase, from burn (v.) + out (adv.). Meaning "mental exhaustion from continuous effort" is from 1975.
- As in nervous breakdown : noun mental exhaustion
- As in drug addict : noun person addicted to narcotics
- As in prostration : noun exhaustion
- As in tiredness : noun exhaustion
- As in exhaustion : noun tiredness
- As in fatigue : noun tiredness
- Burnout of the second stage came suddenly, and we heaved slightly against our belts as the springs in our seats pushed back out.
- Extract from : « The Trouble with Telstar » by John Berryman
- It would take practically absolute simultaneity to overload to the point of burnout to those Strett generators.
- Extract from : « Masters of Space » by Edward Elmer Smith
Antonyms for burnout
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