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adjective

Definition of jadingnext
as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest the jading task of sorting and counting change

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jading

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verb

present participle of jade
as in tiring
to make weary and restless by being dull or monotonous a steady diet of nothing but lobster would jade the palate of even the most ardent lobster lover

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jading
  1. boring
  2. tiring
  3. slow
  4. weary
  5. stupid
  6. dull
  7. old
  8. dusty
Adjective
  • Black Friday Saks Fifth Avenue Jewelry Deals Basics don’t have to be boring—and this Black Friday, why not restock your everyday essentials?
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Winner of the Locarno Jury Prize, this daring essay-film is radical and often bleak but, even at its nearly 3-hour run time, never boring.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of boring
Adjective
  • This somewhat surprising 8,600 improvement may be consumers tiring of online commerce and wanting to get out to shop.
    Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 28 Nov. 2024
  • But fights about politics — or simply not knowing what to say — can sometimes make for a tiring experience.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of tiring
Adjective
  • However, Prince William wants to take things very slow for his wife to ease her back into normalcy.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 22 Nov. 2024
  • However, even for a slow jog, that’s exactly what happened.
    Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of slow
Adjective
  • Thankfully, the Theragun Mini comes to the rescue of weary travelers, offering percussion massage that revs muscles back up to fighting shape.
    Matthew Medendorp, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Without outside support, pro-democracy activists inside the country faced increasing repression and were unable to convince the weary public that democracy was worth fighting for.
    Sarah E. Yerkes, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of weary
Adjective
  • The big choices characters do make are all almost incomprehensibly stupid.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Nobody directing people and stupid mazes with limited entrances.
    Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
Definition of stupid
Adjective
  • Sweet Rose High Rolled Accent Chair Brighten up dull spaces with this floral accent chair that’s on major sale ahead of Black Friday.
    Kelsey Fredricks, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Peter Field and Adam Morgan call it the ‘extraordinary cost of dull’.
    Sairah Ashman, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of dull
Adjective
  • The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
  • By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.
    Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
Definition of old
Adjective
  • Advertisement So aiming to lure more people off Main Street (a.k.a. U.S. 95) to visit this 31-room motel in the dusty, stark middle of Nevada, Mehar is boosting his creepiness quotient.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The first episode of NBC’s Saturday Night aired live from New York on October 11, 1975, and looked like literal trash — gray, brown, muted, somehow both dusty and wet, with sets that appeared to have been left on the sidewalk for a few days.
    David LaChapelle, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of dusty
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