bleached, faded, washed-out, washy
(adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color; āsun-bleached deck chairsā; āfaded jeansā; āa very pale washed-out blueā; āwashy colorsā
attenuate, attenuated, faded, weakened
(adjective) reduced in strength; āthe faded tones of an old recordingā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
faded
simple past tense and past participle of fade
faded (comparative more faded, superlative most faded)
(sometimes, figurative) That has lost some of its former colour or intensity.
(US, slang) high on drugs; stoned
Source: Wiktionary
Fad"ed, a.
Definition: That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim. "His faded cheek." Milton. Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight. Keats.
Fade a. Etym: [F., prob. fr. L. vapidus vapid, or possibly fr,fatuus foolish, insipid.]
Definition: Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace. [R.] "Passages that are somewhat fade." Jeffrey. His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous. De Quincey.
Fade, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Faded; p. pr. & vb. n. Fading.] Etym: [OE. faden, vaden, prob. fr. fade, a.; cf. Prov. D. vadden to fade, wither, vaddigh languid, torpid. Cf. Fade, a., 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.
Fade, v. t.
Definition: To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away. No winter could his laurels fade. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
