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jaded

/ˈd͡ʒeɪdɪd/adjective, verb

jaded is an adjective meaning “Bored or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having been overexposed to, or having consumed too much of something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled J-A-D-E-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does jaded mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Bored or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having been overexposed to, or having consumed too much of something.

  2. 2

    Worn out, wearied, exhausted or lacking enthusiasm, due to age or experience.

  3. 3

    Made callous or cynically insensitive, by experience.

  4. 4

    Embittered, disillusioned, emotionally worn down by disappointment

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of jade (a form of jade)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce jaded?

  • /ˈd͡ʒeɪdɪd/

Jaded 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-jaded.ogg, En-au-jaded.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of jaded

  • more jaded comparative
  • most jaded superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is jaded?

Jaded appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th 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).

Jaded in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchépuisé, harassé (Worn out, wearied, or lacking enthusiasm…), blasé, désabusé (Cynically insensitive; made callous by…)
Germanausgelutscht, erschöpft, verbraucht, ermattet (Worn out, wearied, or lacking enthusiasm…), abgestumpft (Cynically insensitive; made callous by…)
Portugueseesgotado, exausto, desencantado, desestimulado (Worn out, wearied, or lacking enthusiasm…), cínico, calejado (Cynically insensitive; made callous by…)
Spanishagotado, harto, hartado (Worn out, wearied, or lacking enthusiasm…), hastiado, enhastiado, enfastiado (Cynically insensitive; made callous by…)

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.

Where does jaded come from?

From jade (“worn-out horse”), possibly from Old Norse jalda (“mare”). Jade as a term of abuse for a woman dates from 1560.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).