1.
[syn: jaded, wearied]
2. dulled by surfeit;
- Example: "the amoral, jaded, bored upper classes"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Jade \Jade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jaded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Jading.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To treat like a jade; to spurn. [Obs.] --Shak.
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2. To make ridiculous and contemptible. [Obs.]
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I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.
--Shak.
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3. To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any
kind; to tire, make dull, or wear out by severe or tedious
tasks; to harass.
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The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power,
. . . checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.
--Locke.
Syn: To fatigue; tire; weary; harass.
Usage: To Jade, Fatigue, Tire, Weary. Fatigue is the
generic term; tire denotes fatigue which wastes the
strength; weary implies that a person is worn out by
exertion; jade refers to the weariness created by a
long and steady repetition of the same act or effort.
A little exertion will tire a child or a weak person;
a severe or protracted task wearies equally the body
and the mind; the most powerful horse becomes jaded on
a long journey by a continual straining of the same
muscles. Wearied with labor of body or mind; tired of
work, tired out by importunities; jaded by incessant
attention to business.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
jaded \jaded\ adj.
1. dulled by surfeit; as, the amoral, jaded, bored upper
classes.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. fatigued due to excess effort.
Syn: wearied.
[WordNet 1.5]
my father's words had left me jaded and depressed
--William
Styron
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
jaded
adj 1: exhausted; "my father's words had left me jaded and
depressed"- William Styron [syn: jaded, wearied]
2: dulled by surfeit; "the amoral, jaded, bored upper classes"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "jaded":
allayed, apathetic, ausgespielt, benumbed, blase, bone-weary,
bored, bushed, cloyed, crammed, dead, debilitated, disgusted,
dispirited, dog-tired, done, done up, dopey, dormant, drooping,
droopy, drugged, dull, effete, emptied, enervated, enfeebled,
engorged, exanimate, exhausted, fagged, faint, fainting, far-gone,
fatigued, fed up, fed-up, feeling faint, flagging, footsore,
frazzled, full, full of, glutted, good and tired, gorged, heavy,
hebetudinous, inanimate, inert, irked, lackadaisical, laid low,
languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, life-weary, lifeless,
listless, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, moribund, numb,
overfed, overfull, overgorged, oversaturated, overstuffed,
phlegmatic, played out, pooped, ready to drop, replete, run ragged,
run-down, sagging, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied, saturated,
seedy, shotten, sick, sick of, slaked, sleepy, slow, sluggish,
somnolent, spent, splenetic, stagnant, stagnating, stuffed,
stultified, supersaturated, supine, surfeited, tired, tired of,
tired of living, tired to death, tired-winged, toilworn, torpid,
unrefreshed, unrestored, used up, vegetable, vegetative, wan,
way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, weaned, wearied, weariful,
weary, weary unto death, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged,
weary-worn, wilting, with a bellyful, with a snootful,
with enough of, world-weary, worn, worn down, worn-down,
worn-out