jaded, ppl. a.
(ˈdʒeɪdɪd)
[f. jade v. + -ed1.]
1. Worn out or exhausted; fatigued; fagged out.
| 1693 Sir C. Sedley Prol. to H. Higden's Wary Widdow, Their Jaded Muse is distanc'd in the Course. 1798 Bloomfield Farmer's Boy, Summer 106 Unwittingly his jaded eyelids close. 1809 Byron Bards & Rev. 145 Each spurs his jaded Pegasus apace. 1865 Lecky Ration. (1878) II. 319 Charming away the weariness of the jaded mind. |
2. Dull or sated by continual use or indulgence.
| 1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlew. (1641) 305 Former times were not so jaded to fashions as to esteeme nothing formall, but what was phantasticall. 1744 Armstrong Preserv. Health ii. 158 To spur beyond Its wiser will the jaded appetite. 1828 W. Sewell Oxf. Prize Ess. 39 Nature was tortured in every way to stimulate the jaded palate. |
† 3. ? Regarded with contempt. Obs.
| 1593 Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. i. 52 The honourable blood of Lancaster Must not be shed by such a iaded Groome. |
Hence ˈjadedly adv., in a jaded or fatigued manner; ˈjadedness, the state of being worn out.
| 1885 Howells Silas Lapham (1891) II. 132 Lapham listened jadedly, and answered far from the point. 1896 A. J. Wilson in Westm. Gaz. 27 Apr. 8/1 Days..saddened by incessant toil, performed in weakness of body and jadedness of brain. 1899 B. Harraden Fowler vi. 49 The worldliness fled from her soul, the jadedness from her spirit. |