jaded
/ˈdʒeɪdɪd
/adjective
1Bored or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having had too much of something: meals to tempt the most jaded appetites...
- Spectacle is the best word to describe the show; as it would enthuse the most jaded sybarite.
- We all feel jaded and long for time to escape and revitalise. I'm consoled with the thought of leaving.
- If you live for your online friends, you're never going to live in the real world and that will leave you jaded and unhappy.
Synonyms
satiated, sated, surfeited, glutted, cloyed, gorged;
dulled, blunted, deadened, benumbed
1.1Irish informal Physically tired; exhausted: I have to work tonight and I don’t want to become totally jaded before I even get there...
- And she needs to ensure her second run around the course does not become tired and jaded - for us.
- The wind and hail arrived with ten minutes left and the visitors looked tired and jaded.
- Celtic soon lost their impetus and had the look of a jaded team.
Synonyms
tired, weary, tired out, wearied, worn out, exhausted, fatigued, overtired, sleepy, drowsy, sapped, dog-tired, spent, drained, jet-lagged, debilitated, prostrate, enervated, low
informal all in, done (in/up), dead, dead beat, dead tired, dead on one's feet, asleep on one's feet, ready to drop, played out, fagged out, bushed, pooped, worn to a frazzle, shattered, burnt out
British informal knackered, whacked
North American informal tuckered out
Derivatives
jadedly
- But we're not Europeans: we can't simply light up a Gauloise, unfold a copy of our partisan newspaper and jadedly admit that bias is inevitable - c'est la guerre!
- As my ninth presidential inauguration in Washington approaches, perhaps I should be jadedly bemused.
- As to the Exhibition itself, he jadedly complained to a friend on 11 July that he felt ‘used up’: ‘I don't say there's nothing in it’ - there's too much…
jadedness
- Innocence lost, it's an old and boring story, but the way that she dismisses a potential boyfriend as ‘too good for me’ is sad in a 14 year old, who should be a decade away from such jadedness.
- They confront the demons that plague their lives - betrayal, suspicion, guilt and loss, hope and fading aspirations - not only with Gary's mordant jadedness, but with plainspoken sincerity.
- We have immensities of creativity unknown to previous history, but also the spectre of unparalleled jadedness.
Origin
Late 16th century (in the sense 'disreputable'): from jade2.