faded has definitions from the field of color
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[ adjective ] (color) having lost freshness or brilliance of color

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

colorless

2
[ adjective ] reduced in strength

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

decreased

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