jaded

adjective

jad·​ed ˈjā-dəd 

1

: fatigued by overwork : exhausted

a jaded horse

2

: made dull, apathetic, or cynical by experience or by having or seeing too much of something

jaded network viewers

jaded voters

jadedly adverb

jadedness noun

Synonyms

• all in
• aweary [archaic]
• beat
• beaten
• bleary
• burned-out
• burnt-out
• bushed
• dead
• done
• drained
• exhausted
• fatigued
• knackered [British]
• limp
• logy
• loggy
• played out
• pooped [slang]
• prostrate
• spent
• tapped out
• tired
• tuckered (out)
• washed-out
• wearied
• weary
• wiped out
• worn
• worn-out

Examples of jaded in a Sentence

Oh, yes, mate, they're all jaded here now—their last gasps of innocence sucked out of them by Olympic pharaohs who at first played a blatant game of bait-and-switch with Games tickets, furtively putting aside vast quantities of the best seats to sell to fat cats at higher prices. —Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated, 11 Sept. 2000

I'm jaded with the pulls on me that I can't answer to. —Robert Frost, letter, 12 Aug. 1924

He became jaded from years of work as a police officer.

a public jaded by political scandals

Recent Examples on the Web

Even the most jaded executives get excited about new technologies. —Fred Swaniker, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024

Characters like her — cranky, jaded, childless, older women — do not lead action films. —Ash Parrish, The Verge, 30 Aug. 2024

Trump understands the raw emotion of posting and engaging, the jolt that all but the most jaded users feel whenever the likes and replies start to roll in and the dopamine receptors activate. —Matthew Kirschenbaum, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024

And to watch one of the interviewees go for being a joyous, giddy, chatty child to being a slightly older, more distant and jaded tween is heartbreaking. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2024

Word History

Etymology

see jade entry 3

First Known Use

1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1