faded

adjective

fad·​ed ˈfā-dəd 

1

: having lost freshness or depth of color

faded jeans

a faded photograph from 1931

2

: having weakened or diminished with the passage of time

a faded memory

I lie on the bed and look out the window then at the room's whitewashed walls with their message of past and faded glory.

—Lynne Tillman

Synonyms of faded

• pale
• dulled
• light
• dull

Examples of faded in a Sentence

rather than buy faded jeans, I get the dark blues and let time and the washing machine do their thing

Recent Examples on the Web

Before the third siren at seven o’clock Chitol parked his bicycle alongside hundreds of others like it, his identified by a faded yellow piece of his wife’s old sari around the handlebars, which doubled as a duster. —Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026

The trembling bass mixed with faded talk-raps (somewhere between fakemink’s blurry party reports and SoundCloud-era Nav’s fame-hungry melodrama) feels like listening to Mustard’s pop-rap formula from inside the club bathroom. —Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 19 Feb. 2026

Atlanta city officials were instructed to remove a faded crosswalk from a busy street nearly three years before a man was struck and killed while getting lunch for his wife, his family alleges in a new lawsuit. —Shaddi Abusaid, AJC.com, 17 Feb. 2026

Manny Pacquiao’s attempt to extend his boxing career toward an Olympic appearance at 45 ran into age‑limit rules and concerns about the optics and health risks of watching a faded great take more punishment. —Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing faded

• pre-faded

Rhymes for faded

• aided
• bladed
• braided
• graded
• jaded
• raided
• shaded
• traded
• waded
• abraded
• arcaded
• blockaded