jaded

English

WOTD – 11 October 2007

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒeɪdɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdɪd

Adjective

jaded (comparative more jaded, superlative most jaded)

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

   Synonyms: cloyed, gorged, glutted, satiated, sated, surfeited

   • 1927 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Little Mother up the Möderberg”, in The Short Stories of H. G. Wells, London: Ernest Benn Limited […], →OCLC, page 641:

     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.

   • 1981, “Too Drunk to Fuck”, performed by Dead Kennedys:

     But now I am jaded / You're out of luck / I'm rolling down the stairs / Too drunk to fuck

2. Worn out, wearied, exhausted or lacking enthusiasm, due to age or experience.

   Synonyms: exhausted, fatigued, wearied; see also Thesaurus:fatigued

3. Made callous or cynically insensitive, by experience.

   Synonym: blasé

Derived terms

• jadedness

Translations

Worn out, wearied, or lacking enthusiasm; exhausted

• Arabic: مُنْهَك m (munhak)
• Bulgarian: измъчен (bg) (izmǎčen), изтощен (bg) (iztošten)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 厭倦／厌倦 (zh) (yànjuàn)

• Dutch: uitgeput (nl), uitgeblust (nl), opgebrand (nl), afgemat (nl), op (nl), afgejakkerd (nl)
• Esperanto: trivita, elĉerpita
• Finnish: kyllästynyt (fi), väsynyt (fi)
• French: épuisé (fr), harassé (fr)
• Galician: derreado (gl) m, derreada f
• Georgian: გადაღლილი (gadaɣlili), დატანჯული (daṭanǯuli)
• German: ausgelutscht (de), erschöpft (de), verbraucht (de), ermattet (de)
• Hebrew: שחוק (he) m, עייף m
• Italian: disincantato (it) m, scettico (it) m, indifferente (it) m, blasé m
• Latvian: nodzīts m
• Polish: sterany
• Portuguese: esgotado (pt), exausto (pt), desencantado, desestimulado
• Romanian: epuizat (ro)
• Russian: изнурённый (ru) (iznurjónnyj), изму́ченный (ru) (izmúčennyj), обесси́ленный (ru) (obessílennyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: iscrpljen (sh)
• Spanish: agotado (es)
• Turkish: usanmış, usangın (tr), bıkmış (tr), bıkkın (tr), bezmiş (tr), bezgin (tr), yılgın (tr)

Cynically insensitive; made callous by experience

• Dutch: afgestompt (nl)
• Esperanto: hardita
• French: blasé (fr), désabusé (fr)
• German: abgestumpft (de)
• Latvian: aprepējis
• Polish: zblazowany (pl)
• Portuguese: cínico (pt), calejado (pt)
• Russian: пресы́тившийся (ru) (presýtivšijsja), пресы́щенный (ru) (presýščennyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: blaziran (sh) f
• Spanish: hastiado (es)
• Turkish: usanmış, usangın (tr), bıkmış (tr), bıkkın (tr), bezmiş (tr), bezgin (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 厌倦的 (yànjuàn de)

Verb

jaded

1. simple past and past participle of jade

Anagrams

• deadj.