faded
/ˈfeɪdɪd/adjective, verb
faded is an adjective meaning “That has lost some of its former vividness and colour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-D-E-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears 5.4 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does faded mean?
adjective
- 1
That has lost some of its former vividness and colour.
a faded tablecloth
- 2
That has lost some of its former strength or vigour.
a faded rock star of the 1970s
- 3
USslangHigh on drugs; stoned.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of fade
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce faded?
- /ˈfeɪdɪd/
Faded has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-faded.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of faded
- more faded comparative
- most faded superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is faded?
Faded appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Faded in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of colour that has lost its intensity:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.