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Jaded

//ˈd͡ʒeɪdɪd// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Bored or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having been overexposed to, or having consumed too much of something.

    "When she came, I could see at a glance she was tired and jaded and worried, and so, instead of letting her fret about in the hotel and get into a wearing tangle of gossip, I packed her and two knapsacks up, and started off on a long, refreshing, easy-going walk northward, until a blister on her foot stranded us at the Magenruhe Hotel on the Sneejoch."

  2. 2
    Worn out, wearied, exhausted or lacking enthusiasm, due to age or experience.
  3. 3
    Made callous or cynically insensitive, by experience.
Adjective
  1. 1
    dulled by surfeit wordnet
  2. 2
    exhausted wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of jade form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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