Jaded

4 definitions found

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

  Jade \Jade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jaded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Jading}.]
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     1. To treat like a jade; to spurn. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     2. To make ridiculous and contemptible. [Obs.]
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              I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.
                                                    --Shak.
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     3. To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any
        kind; to tire, make dull, or wear out by severe or tedious
        tasks; to harass.
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              The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power,
              . . . checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.
                                                    --Locke.
  
     Syn: To fatigue; tire; weary; harass.
  
     Usage: To {Jade}, {Fatigue}, {Tire}, {Weary}. Fatigue is the
            generic term; tire denotes fatigue which wastes the
            strength; weary implies that a person is worn out by
            exertion; jade refers to the weariness created by a
            long and steady repetition of the same act or effort.
            A little exertion will tire a child or a weak person;
            a severe or protracted task wearies equally the body
            and the mind; the most powerful horse becomes jaded on
            a long journey by a continual straining of the same
            muscles. Wearied with labor of body or mind; tired of
            work, tired out by importunities; jaded by incessant
            attention to business.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  jaded \jaded\ adj.
     1. dulled by surfeit; as, the amoral, jaded, bored upper
        classes.
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     2. fatigued due to excess effort.
  
     Syn: wearied.
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                my father's words had left me jaded and depressed
                                                    --William
                                                    Styron
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jaded
       adj 1: exhausted; "my father's words had left me jaded and
              depressed"- William Styron [syn: {wearied}]
       2: dulled by surfeit; "the amoral, jaded, bored upper classes"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  136 Moby Thesaurus words for "jaded":
     allayed, apathetic, ausgespielt, benumbed, blase, bone-weary,
     bored, bushed, cloyed, crammed, dead, debilitated, disgusted,
     dispirited, dog-tired, done, done up, dopey, dormant, drooping,
     droopy, drugged, dull, effete, emptied, enervated, enfeebled,
     engorged, exanimate, exhausted, fagged, faint, fainting, far-gone,
     fatigued, fed up, fed-up, feeling faint, flagging, footsore,
     frazzled, full, full of, glutted, good and tired, gorged, heavy,
     hebetudinous, inanimate, inert, irked, lackadaisical, laid low,
     languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, life-weary, lifeless,
     listless, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, moribund, numb,
     overfed, overfull, overgorged, oversaturated, overstuffed,
     phlegmatic, played out, pooped, ready to drop, replete, run ragged,
     run-down, sagging, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied, saturated,
     seedy, shotten, sick, sick of, slaked, sleepy, slow, sluggish,
     somnolent, spent, splenetic, stagnant, stagnating, stuffed,
     stultified, supersaturated, supine, surfeited, tired, tired of,
     tired of living, tired to death, tired-winged, toilworn, torpid,
     unrefreshed, unrestored, used up, vegetable, vegetative, wan,
     way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, weaned, wearied, weariful,
     weary, weary unto death, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged,
     weary-worn, wilting, with a bellyful, with a snootful,
     with enough of, world-weary, worn, worn down, worn-down,
     worn-out