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Definition: Jaded |
JadedAdjective1. Exhausted; "my father's words had left me jaded and depressed"- William Styron. 2. Dulled by surfeit; "the amoral, jaded, bored upper classes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "jaded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonym: JadedSynonym: wearied (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Jaded |
| English words defined with "jaded": Unfestlich ♦ wearied. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "jaded": jaded raver. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "jaded": Unfestlich. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Some people in this business get jaded because it's always the same awful stories (Up Close & Personal; writing credit: Joan Didion; John Gregory Dunne) | |
Lyrics | It's likely they're just jealous and jaded (TIL I HEAR IT FROM YOU; performing artist: Gin Blossoms) I'm getting jaded (Barenaked; performing artist: Jennifer Love Hewit) But I'm jaded (Bent; performing artist: Matchbox 20) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Jaded (1996) | |
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| "Jaded" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 78.87% of the time. "Jaded" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 78.87% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 11.27% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 8.45% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.41% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 71 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "jaded": jaded-looking. | |
Ending with "jaded": un-jaded. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "jaded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i lodhur (all in, aweary, bored, disgusted, fatigued, flagging, forworn, languorous, rundown, sick, tired, used up, way-worn, weary, worn out). (various references) | |
Arabic | سئم (be sick of, sicken, tire, tired, weary). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | преситен (blasй, heavy, satiate), изтощен (all in, bushed, down and out, effete, emaciated, enervate, exhausted, gaunt, limp, perished, played out, prostrate, run down, screwy, shagged out, shot, sick, spent, used up, weary, whacked), измъчен (afflicted, careworn, chivied, drawn, gaunt, haggard, labored, laboured, pinched). (various references) | |
Czech | unavený (stale, tired, weary), přesycený, přepracovaný (overworked, overwrought), otřepaný (corny, hackneyed, outworn, overworked, platitudinous, stale, threadbare, trite, well worn), malátný (languid, languorous, lethargic, limp, weary), blazeovaný. (various references) | |
French | las, fatigué (jagged), blasé (jagged). (various references) | |
German | erschöpft (effete, exhausted, exhausts, impoverished, outworn, overwrought, pinched, prostrate, spent, worn out). (various references) | |
Greek | κατάκοποσ (dead tired), βαρυεστημένοσ (lackadaisical, weary of). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תשוש (all in, exhausted, flagging, frail, limp, limping, overwrought, played out, weak), עיף (exhausted, fatigue, tired, washed out, weary). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megcsömörlött (blasé, fed up), elcsigázott (careworn, deadbeat, exhausted, spent, to feel used up). (various references) | |
Italian | stanco (exhausted, overwrought, tired, warn out, weary), spossato (exhausted, limply, worn out), logoro (effete, exhausted, outworn, ragged, ruined, shabby, threadbare, well worn, worn, worn out), affaticato (labored, laboured, overdriven, strained, tired). (various references) | |
Manx | moandagh (dull as edge, dull of hearing, hesitant, lisping, stammering), ceaut (bygone; effete; thrown, launched, spent, worn). (various references) | |
Norwegian | trett, sløvet. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adedjay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gasto (consumption, cost, effete, exhausted, expenditure, expense, impoverished, offscourings, old, out, outgo, seedy, shabby, spent, threadbare, trite, untrue, waste, wear), fatigado (done, faint, haggard, outworn, strained, tired, weary, worn-out), exausto (blown, bushed, dead-beat, done, effete, exhausted, faint, impoverished, outworn, overwrought, played-out, spent, whacked), estafado (done, tired, worn-out), cansado (bushed, done, outworn, played-out, strained, tired, washed-out, weary, whacked, worn-out), aborrecido (annoyed, beastly, boring, bothersome, damnable, disgusted, drab, dreary, dull, dullish, grouchy, horrid, irksome, meddler, morose, mumpish, outworn, pernickety, pesky, prose, provoking, soporific, stodgy, sulky, tedious, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, unpleasant, vexed, vexing, wearisome, weary, worn-out, worried, worrisome). (various references) | |
Romanian | uzat (cast off, decrepit, effete, mangy, napless, obsolete, outworn, peeled, seedy, shabby, spent, used, well worn, worn out), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), ros (gnawed, napless, obsolete, seedy, threadbare), istovit (exhausted, faint, fordone, overspent, tired, tired out), frânt (beaten, broken, dead beat, knackered, outworn), epuizat (effete, exhausted, out of print, out of stock, outworn, prostrate, worn out). (various references) | |
Russian | изнуренный (exhausted, outworn, wan). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | iznuren (deadbeat, peaked, peaky, run down, weary, worn-down). (various references) | |
Spanish | hastiado (blasé, weary), cansado (chapfallen, deadbeat, dog-sick, doleful, effete, impotent, outworn, tired, tiresome, weary), agotado (beaten, bleary, bushed, depletive, distressful, distressing, drained, effete, exhausted, gruel, outsold, overwrought, played out, shot, sold out, spent, tired, tired out, unavailable, warn out, washed out, washed up, whacked, worn out). (various references) | |
Swedish | utsliten (effete, washed out, worn out). (various references) | |
Thai | เหนื่อย (tire, tired of). (various references) | |
Turkish | zevksiz (sapless, tasteless, tawdry, unamusing), yorgun (all in, all out, bushed, done, drawn, effete, forworn, languorous, off, pooped, pooped out, run down, spent, stale, tired, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, wan, washed out, weary, whacked, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle), yavan (arid, bald, crude, cut and dried, dry, frail, insipid, jejune, meager, meagre, milk and water, platitudinous, prosaic, prose, prosy, tasteless, uninspired, vapid, watery), tatsız tuzsuz (insipid, saltless, savorless, savourless), isteksiz (averse, backward, disinclined, grudging, gutless, halfhearted, indisposed, languid, loath, loth, reluctant, repugnant, sticky, undesirous, undisposed, unwilling, wet), bitkin (all in, all out, beat, broken down, bushed, dead beat, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, drooping, effete, exhausted, faint, forworn, haggard, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, run down, spent, stale, tired, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weakly, weary, whacked, wonky, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | виснажений (all in, atrophic, atrophous, attenuate, attenuated, barren, beat, bedrid, cachectic, crocked, effete, emaciate, emaciated, exhausted, hidebound, impoverished, outspent, outworn, overcome, overdriven, overworn, perished, played out, sapless, spent, wan, washed out, washed up, weariful, whipped-up, worn, worn out), заїжджений (crocked), пересичений (satiate, sick, tired). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mệt rã rời (dog-tired, dog-weary), mệt mỏi (mondayish, tired, wan, wearied, weary), kiệt sức; phải l m việc quá sức chán ứ, chán ngấy (dreadful, satiate). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "jaded": jadedly, jadedness, jadednesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "jaded": unjaded. (additional references) | |
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"Jaded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ajdayt, ejaded, jabed, jaced, jada, jadda, jadded, jadder, Jaddoo, jadea, jaden, jader, jadet, jadey, jadez, Jadidh, jado, jady, jaed, jafe, Jagdev, Jakdo, jaled, Jamdet, jamet, jaqe, jaqed, jardex, jared, jated, Jawdat, jaxe, jayed, jeda, jede, jeded, jeed, Jeydid, jide, joder, Judet, judod, maded, Nadezda, Tjaden, vaded. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "jaded" (pronounced jā"dud) |
| 4 | -ā" d u d | aided, bladed, blockaded, braided, cascaded, degraded, invaded, dissuaded, evaded, faded, graded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, raided, serenaded, shaded, traded, unaided, upbraided, waded. |
| 3 | -d u d | abounded, acceded, accorded, abided, added, afforded, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blooded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, carded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confided, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defended, defrauded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, derided, descended, disbanded, discarded, intruded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, disregarded, distended, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, encoded, ended, enshrouded, eroded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, fended, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, glided, goaded, grounded, guarded, guided, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, pretended, prided, proceeded, prodded, propounded, provided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, resided, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, transcended, trended, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, undecided, underfunded, underhanded, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upgraded, voided, wadded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-j" | |
-1 letter: dead, jade. | |
-2 letters: add, dad. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-j" | |
+2 letters: adjudge, adjured, jadedly, unjaded. | |
+3 letters: adjoined, adjudged, adjudges, adjusted. | |
+4 letters: adjourned, jadedness, jaundiced, jeoparded. | |
+5 letters: adjudicate, readjusted, unadjusted. | |
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