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.—
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Lynne TillmanExamples 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
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Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
The names of the oldest Metro stations also contained micro-histories, so too the faded playbills of the theaters and chipped words at the tramcar stop.
—Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
Actress Letitia Wright attended a Prada event in a faded denim and leather jacket.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 31 Mar. 2026
That fall, an old friend reached out to my father through the underground communications network, dialling a number printed on a faded piece of plastic Dymo tape and speaking to him from a public phone booth.
—Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
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“Faded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faded. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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