Faded

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Faded \Fad"ed\, a.
     That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.
     "His faded cheek." --Milton.
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           Where the faded moon


           Made a dim silver twilight.              --Keats.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fade \Fade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Faded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Fading}.] [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.
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              The earth mourneth and fadeth away.   --Is. xxiv. 4.
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     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.
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     3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to
        vanish.
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              The stars shall fade away.            --Addison
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              He makes a swanlike end,
              Fading in music.                      --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  faded
       adj 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 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