单词 | faded |
释义 | faded (once / 327 pages) 1adj 2adj Faded things have lost the bright color they once had. Your faded jeans, once dark blue but now pale and worn, might be your favorite thing to wear. Clothes become faded after being worn and washed again and again, and in many places the landscape itself seems faded in the wintertime, all dull grays and pale browns. Strength, energy, or vitality can also become faded, like a boxer toward the end of a long match. The Old French root of faded is fader, "become weak," from fade, "weak, pale, or insipid." WORD FAMILYfaded: fadedly, prefaded+/fade: faded, fades, fading/fading: fadings, unfading/unfading: unfadingly USAGE EXAMPLESThe promise quickly faded when Penn State offered a scholarship two years later. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) Over the decades, many of the animal and human figures became tattered, faded or broken. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) That,” he added with a laugh, “obviously faded pretty fast.” Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 adj having lost freshness or brilliance of color 2faded jeans Syn bleached, washed-out, washy colorless, colourless weak in color; not colorful adj reduced in strength the faded tones of an old recording Syn attenuate, attenuated, weakened decreased, reduced made less in size or amount or degree |
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