fed up
fed up — adjective
1. feeling that you can no longer accept a situation or someone's behaviour because
feeling that you can no longer accept a situation or someone's behaviour because it has gone on too long or become too unpleasant, and you want it to end.
Rania was fed up with the constant noise from the construction site next door.
fed up with [something] — a situation causing annoyance
After weeks of rain, even the children got fed up and stayed indoors.
get fed up — becoming annoyed over time
Mathieu is fed up of people telling him what to do.
The nurses are fed up with working twelve-hour shifts every weekend without extra pay.
Fed up with the endless traffic jams, Lucía switched to the train.
- satisfied
feeling content with a situation
- happy with
pleased with how things are going
文法句型
fed up with [someone/something]
fed up of [something] (informal British)
get fed up with [something]
fed up with doing [something]
用法筆記
Commonly occurs with the verb 'get' to describe becoming annoyed, or 'feel' to describe the emotional state. The preposition is usually 'with', though British English speakers sometimes use 'of' in informal speech. Unlike many adjectives, 'fed up' cannot come before a noun — you cannot say 'a fed up person' in standard English, though you may hear it informally.
常見錯誤
⚠️ 'I am fed up of waiting for the bus.' ✅ 'I am fed up with waiting for the bus (formal).' — In standard formal English, 'with' is the preferred preposition; 'fed up of' is used informally in British English.
fed up — phrasal verb
- fed upbase form
- feds up3rd person singular
- fedding up-ing form
- fedded uppast simple
1. to be completely unable to tolerate something any longer because you have reache
to be completely unable to tolerate something any longer because you have reached the absolute limit of your patience or endurance, beyond ordinary annoyance.
Ezra was fed up to the back teeth with the company's empty promises about promotion.
fed up to the back teeth with — British intensive idiom
After years of delays and broken contracts, the whole community is fed up beyond words.
fed up beyond words — emphasises the limit of endurance
Kian was fed up to the eyeballs with the landlord who kept promising repairs but never did them.
After three delayed flights in one week, the passengers were utterly fed up and demanded refunds.
After sitting in traffic for two hours, Caio was thoroughly fed up and went home.
- sick to death of
similar intensity; feels more dramatic
- at the end of one's rope
American English equivalent; suggests desperation
文法句型
fed up with [something/someone]
fed up to the back teeth with (British idiom)
用法筆記
In British English this sense can be intensified with idiomatic phrases like 'fed up to the back teeth' or 'fed up to the eyeballs'. These intensify the emotional state beyond ordinary annoyance. This phrasal-verb use is always in past-participle form — there is no active form such as 'it feeds me up'.