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faded

  • /ˈfeɪdɪd/

adjective more faded · most faded

  1. That has lost some of its former vividness and colour. a faded tablecloth
  2. figuratively That has lost some of its former strength or vigour. a faded rock star of the 1970s
  3. US, slang High on drugs; stoned. As I'm walking through the festival entrance, a man casually vomits before continuing on, unfazed. ¶ Twenty-year-old me thinks, "Dope. That guy knows how to get faded like a champ!" ¶ Thirty-year-old me thinks, "I'm concerned for the boy's health and the general sanitation of this festival. Where ar

    Similar: baked, blazed, blitzed, blown, chemically impaired, chopped, cut, drugged, drugged-out, fuckered up, fried, gassed

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of fade

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Closest in meaning: attenuated, washed-out, attenuate, weakened, reduced, colourless, washy, colorless, bleached, decreased, diminished, fallen, extirpated, extinguished, lost, disappeared

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adj of colour that has lost its intensity

Françaisdélavé, décoloré, défraîchi, apâli, flétri
Русскийблеклый bleklyj

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@misc{faded_2026,
  title = {faded},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/faded},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}