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- [1] : 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.
1913 webster
2. to make ridiculous and contemptible. obs.
1913 webster
i do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.
--shak.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
jaded jading jade fatigue tire weary
- [2] : 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
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
jaded
adj 1: exhausted; "my father's words had left me jaded and
depressed"- william styron syn: wearied
2: dulled by surfeit; "the amoral, jaded, bored upper classes"
see also:
wearied
- [4] : 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
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