jaded
Americanadjective
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dulled or satiated by overindulgence.
a jaded appetite.
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worn out or wearied, as by overwork or overuse.
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dissipated.
a jaded reprobate.
adjective
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exhausted or dissipated
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satiated
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Etymology
Origin of jaded
Explanation
If you've done something so much that it doesn't excite you anymore but just leaves you tired, consider yourself jaded. If someone says you look a little jaded, it just means that you look tired. The history of jaded is not clear, but perhaps it is related to the noun jade, an old term for a worn-out horse. Even if not, picturing a tired old horse may be a nice way to remember that jaded means dulled or tired from too much of something. The word can also mean cynical because of bad experiences with something, like a jaded journalist who doesn't see the person behind the politician.
Vocabulary lists containing jaded
The Call of the Wild
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Example Sentences
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Jaded by love and her reality, she continues:
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2024
Two of the album's stand-out tracks, River and Jaded, also make this week's Top 40.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2023
Jaded parents said their Barney-obsessed children would not “brush their teeth until Barney showed them how, wouldn’t cross the street at the corner, wouldn’t eat their carrots,” The Washington Post reported in 1993.
From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023
Heading into the far turn, however, she crouched low and rubbed her hands on the filly’s neck, and Jaded Tiger shot around four horses and won by nearly two lengths.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2021
Jaded and nervous with their long trip in the cars, and strange to the air and surroundings, they fidgeted and fretted, and soon the sweat-line was creeping up their backs.
From The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West by Stead, Robert J. C.
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