jaded

adjective

jad·​ed ˈjā-dəd 

1

: feeling or showing a lack of interest or excitement that is caused by having done or experienced too much of something

… jaded celebrities who have seen it all and then some …

—Daphne Merkin

a jaded attitude

2

: fatigued by overwork : exhausted

… a weary actor jaded by the performance of a difficult part.

—Charles Dickens

jadedly adverb

If there is a theme to these shows—with their world-weary kids and less-than-super heroes—it's casting a jadedly funny grown-up eye on the memories and characters of childhood.

—James Poniewozik

jadedness noun

Synonyms of jaded

• tired
• exhausted
• weary

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

The film could use a few more such colorful secondary strands adjoining the main conflict, though one subplot involving a maybe-romance between two jaded journalists assigned to the summit is oddly framed and abruptly dropped. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026

Despite the jaded energy from the doorman, someone onstage wanted me inside. — Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026

In the comic, familiar vein of this poem, this Circe is jaded. — Bailey Sincox, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2026

Which suits the performatively jaded teens, who chain-smoke at restaurants with white tablecloths and traverse the city without curfew or constraint. — Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2026

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of jade entry 2

First Known Use

1600, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for jaded

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