 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
faded
adjective
1: having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached
deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out
blue"; "washy colors" [syn: {bleached}, {washed-out},
{washy}]
2: reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording"
[syn: {attenuate}, {attenuated}, {weakened}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fade \Fade\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Faded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fading}.] [OE. faden, vaden, prob. fr. fade, adjective; cf. Prov.
D. vadden to fade, wither, vaddigh languid, torpid. Cf.
{Fade}, adjective, {Vade}.]
1. To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay;
to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
The earth mourneth and fadeth away. --Is. xxiv. 4.
2. To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint
in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. ''Flowers
that never fade.'' --Milton.
3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to
vanish.
The stars shall fade away. --Addison
He makes a swanlike end,
Fading in music. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Faded \Fad"ed\, adjective
That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.
''His faded cheek.'' --Milton.
Where the faded moon
Made a dim silver twilight. --Keats.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "faded":
achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, bedraggled, blanched,
bleached, bled white, bloodless, cadaverous, chloranemic,
colorless, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy,
discolored, dull, eroded, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine,
exsanguineous, faint, fallow, flat, ghastly, gray, haggard,
hueless, hypochromic, lackluster, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless,
mat, mealy, muddy, murky, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced,
pallid, pasty, run-down, sallow, seedy, shabby, sickly, tacky,
tallow-faced, tattered, threadbare, tired, toneless, uncolored,
wan, washed-out, wasted, waxen, weak, weather-battered,
weather-beaten, weather-bitten, weather-eaten, weather-wasted,
weathered, weatherworn, whey-faced, white, worn
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