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Meaning of FADED

Pronunciation:  f'eydud

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"
  2. [adj]  reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording"
 
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 Synonyms: attenuate, attenuated, bleached, colorless, colourless, decreased, reduced, washed-out, washy, weakened
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Fad"ed\, a.
That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.
``His faded cheek.'' --Milton.
      Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight.
                                               --Keats.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: 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, weathered, weather-wasted, weatherworn, whey-faced, white, worn
 

 

 

 

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