jaded
[jey-did]
- dulled or satiated by overindulgence: a jaded appetite.
- worn out or wearied, as by overwork or overuse.
- dissipated: a jaded reprobate.
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Origin of jaded
jade2
[jeyd]
- a worn-out, broken-down, worthless, or vicious horse.
- a disreputable or ill-tempered woman.
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- to make or become dull, worn-out, or weary, as from overwork or overuse.
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Origin of jade2
1350–1400; Middle English; of obscure origin
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Contemporary Examples
“The Ladies Who Lunch,” an ode to jaded Manhattanites, stubbornness, and vodka stingers, became one of her two signature songs.
So we take it for granted in many ways, and so we are jaded by all the great discoveries.
We are now so jaded about the Affordable Care Act that it has lost the ability to shock us.
Jaded by endless political defeats, the Christian right is circling the wagons and cutting off those who compromise.
The shenanigans of Intimacy will shake any jaded theater fan from nudity ennui.
Historical Examples
The horses had been worked every day since the start, and were jaded.
A Woman TenderfootGrace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
But jaded though I might be, it was not yet my intent to sleep.
The Shame of MotleyRaphael Sabatini
In his jaded condition Kenneth soon became a prey to the depression of it.
The Tavern KnightRafael Sabatini
Six jaded horses, drawing a light spring-cart, had just pulled up.
The Twins of Suffering CreekRidgwell Cullum
This outrageous exhibition was to the Editor like the lash to a jaded horse.
Within the TidesJoseph Conrad
jaded
- exhausted or dissipated
- satiated
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jade1
- a semiprecious stone consisting of either jadeite or nephrite. It varies in colour from white to green and is used for making ornaments and jewellery
- (as modifier)jade ornaments
- the green colour of jade
- (as modifier)a jade skirt
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Word Origin
C18: from French, from Italian giada, from obsolete Spanish piedra de ijada colic stone (literally: stone of the flank, because it was believed to cure renal colic); ijada, from Vulgar Latin īliata (unattested) flanks, from Latin īlia, plural of īlium; see ileum
jade2
- an old overworked horse; nag; hack
- derogatory, or facetious a woman considered to be ill-tempered or disreputable
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- to exhaust or make exhausted from work or use
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Word Origin
C14: of unknown origin
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Word Origin and History for jaded
adj.
"bored by continual indulgence," 1630s; past participle adjective from jade (v.).
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jade
n.1
ornamental stone, 1721, earlier iada (1590s), from French le jade, error for earlier l'ejade, from Spanish piedra de (la) ijada (1560s), "stone of colic, pain in the side" (jade was thought to cure this), from Vulgar Latin *iliata, from Latin ilia (plural) "flanks, kidney area" (see ileum).
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jade
n.2
"worn-out horse," late 14c., "cart horse," of uncertain origin. Barnhart suggests a variant of yaid, yald "whore," literally "mare," from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse jalda "mare," from Finno-Ugric (cf. Mordvin al'd'a "mare"). But OED finds the assumption of a Scandinavian connection "without reason." As a term of abuse for a woman, it dates from 1550s.
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jade
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jade
[jād]
- A hard gemstone that is pale green or white and consists either of the mineral jadeite (a pyroxene) or the mineral nephrite (an amphibole). It usually forms within metamorphic rocks.
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