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say it: FAY-duhd
faded is an adjective meaning "having lost freshness or brilliance of color". It is pronounced /ˈfeɪdəd/ — FAY-duhd. It carries 2 recorded senses.
having lost freshness or brilliance of color
“sun-bleached deck chairs”
“faded jeans”
“a very pale washed-out blue”
“washy colors”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for faded come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.