faded
has definitions from the field of color
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[ adjective ] (color) having lost freshness or brilliance of color
Synonyms Examples "sun-bleached deck chairs" "faded jeans" "a very pale washed-out blue" "washy colors" Used in print (Dolores Hitchens, Footsteps in the Night....)`` They were all faded . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] reduced in strength
Synonyms Examples "the faded tones of an old recording" Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)The twenty-five year old recording offers rather faded string tone , but the balance between the instruments is good and the transfer is very quiet . The already faded pastel charms of the naive music itself vanish entirely in Fistoulari 's melodramatic contrasts between ultra vehement brute power and chilly , if suave , sentimentality . Related terms |
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