Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. No longer successful or needed; finished.
- adj. Ready to give up in disgust.
Wiktionary
- adj. No longer capable, effective or needed; over the hill.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. doomed to extinction
Examples
“Dunaway is commanding in a caffeinated performance as ruthless Diana, William Holden unusually affecting as a washed-up veteran of TV's glory days, and Finch a revelation as the unbalanced Beale, winning a posthumous Oscar for his work.”
The Huffington Post: John Farr: Actor's Actor: A Birthday Salute to Robert Duvall
“Chris Pratt is affecting as Scott Hatteberg, the washed-up catcher recycled by Billy, according to sabermetric precepts, into a valuable first-baseman.”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Moneyball': Stars, Stats and Perfect Pitch
“Your correspondent Steven Bavaria ( Letters , Dec. 19) has it wrong about Winston Churchill, who was hardly a washed-up over-the-hill politician in the 1930s, though he did have baggage (Gallipoli), but none of a personal kind, and the British didn't turn to him in 1940.”
“Malasig/European Pressphoto Agency A flood victim recovered a washed-up log at a village that was devastated by rampaging flood waters on Tuesday in Iligan City, northern Mindanao, The Philippines.”
“It's not totally unlike the British turning to a washed-up, over-the-hill politician with a lot of baggage, named Winston Churchill, when their backs were to a different sort of wall in 1940.”
“And there are lots of other nice touches — for example, the amazing scenes of the washed-up wrestlers hawking VHS tapes at the American Legion hall, the parallels between pro wrestling that are never belabored or (so rarely in the age in which Aaron Sorkin is considerd a genius) theorized about by the characters.”
“As Armageddon looms, two people stand up to Creel and his scheme: a rogue security agent who uses the single name of Shaw and a washed-up reporter, Katie James.”
“Castro and Ché may, indeed, be a source of inspiration for ignoramuses, washed-up ideologues, tendentious institutions, or people who still believe that he accomplished some "good things," much as Hitler "created jobs" or Mussolini "made the trains run on time" or Pinochet "saved Chile from communism" but it is shocking that the AP would sink this low to make a buck.”
“Castro and Ché may, indeed, be a source of inspiration for ignoramuses, washed-up ideologues, tendentious institutions, or people who still believe that he accomplished some "good things," much as Hitler "created jobs" or Mussolini "made the trains run on time" or Pinochet "saved Chile from communism" but it is shocking that the AP would sink this low to make a buck.”
“It hits every cliche about a washed-up country singer (Gwyneth Paltrow) hoping for a comeback and watching younger and perkier women hot on her trail (Leighton Meester).”
The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: DVDs: Tracy and Hepburn -- The Greatest Screen Team Of All Time
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EN - compound adjectives
Adjectively used nominal phrases with a "-" inside.
t-test, O-ring, B-grade, so-called, on-site, at-large, in-your-face, in-state, on-time, up-to-the-minute, in-store, on-call and 965 more...
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awash
abluent, astringent, ablutomania, ablutionary, lavage, maundy, elution, lustration, rinse, nipter, elute, clysmic and 34 more...
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