Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having lost freshness of color, or having this appearance: as, a faded coat; its color was a faded blue.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of fade.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. reduced in strength
- adj. having lost freshness or brilliance of color
Examples
“Justin frowned, but then the expression faded quickly as he began his story.”
“Bell started to smile but the expression faded fast.”
“Slowly the thought of the word faded, and sleep began to enfold her.”
“When you've learned whom to show the expensive hand-painted things to, and when to suggest quietly the little, vague things, with what you call the faded look, why, you've learned just about all there is to know of human nature.”
“When you've learned whom to show the expensive hand - painted things to, and when to suggest quietly the little, vague things, with what you call the faded look, why, you've learned just about all there is to know of human nature.”
“Anitra smiled faintly in response to the broad grin on McCoy’s face; slowly, her expression faded to one of uncertainty.”
“He was interrupted by a warm-complexioned man, clad in faded mackinaws.”
“He was clad in faded overalls and black cotton shirt, with hobnailed brogans on his feet, and on his head a hat whose shapelessness and stains advertised the rough usage of wind and rain and sun and camp-smoke.”
““Aaaand go!” shouted Fish, a wiry man in faded blue jeans and a loose-fitting, long-sleeved cotton shirt, a headset clamped over a baseball cap.”
“Such was his absorption that the pretty stenographer slowly and imperceptibly faded from the forefront of his consciousness.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘faded’.
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Noteworthy Words
Here I have in mind a list of words that could be spelled with only the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, and G--and thus could also be played as a tune on the piano.
face, ace, bag, cage, bad, fad, fade, fee, gee, beg, fed, deaf and 98 more...
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The Way The Light Dissappears
went out, failed, shut off, snuffed, faded, blew a fuse, knocked out, puffed out, winked out, closes, blackhole, extinguished and 2 more...
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Inspirational Words
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wish, love, truth, smile, faded, deep, shadow, bright, life, tear, tear drop, shimmer and 9 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3099 more... -
Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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urrbody in the club get...
plastered, hammered, shitfaced, blotto, drunk, intoxicated, inebriated, crocked, flushed, wasted, totaled, soused and 22 more...
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words that begin with f
finish, first, food, fatal, fierce, fallow, faith, fiddly, fist, fire, find, fling and 51 more...
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