Fade

Adjective

 * 1)  Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

Noun

 * 1)  A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
 * 2) A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top.  See also high-top fade and low fade.

Verb

 * 1)  To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
 * 2)  To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
 * 3)  To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
 * 4) * 1856:, , Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
 * A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.
 * 1)  To cause to fade.

Adverbs for Fade
partially; gracefully; strangely; autumnally; hauntingly; dismally; inevitably; corporeally; depressingly; tragically; lingeringly.

Synonyms for Fade
decrease, wane, become smaller, weaken, pale, dim, whiten, bleach, disappear, vanish, ebb, dwindle, taper off, wither, deteriorate, blur, evanesce.

Antonyms for Fade
sharpen, darken, strengthen, recover, improve, energize, enhance.

Thesaurus
abate, achromatize, age, ante, ante up, antiquate, arid, attenuate, avoid, back, back-number, banal, barren, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be gone, be no more, be wiped out, become extinct, become obsolete, bet, bet on, bewhiskered, blah, blanch, blank, bleach, bleach out, blench, blink, bloodless, break, bromidic, call, cave in, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, change color, characterless, cheat the undertaker, clear, cloud over, cold, collapse, colorless, come apart, come unstuck, common, commonplace, conk out, corny, cover, cringe, crumble, cut-and-dried, date, dead, decay, decline, decolor, decolorize, deliquesce, dematerialize, depart, desiccate, deteriorate, die, die away, die out, dilute, diluted, dim, diminish, disappear, discolor, disintegrate, dismal, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out, dodder, dodge, draggy, drain, drain of color, draw back, drearisome, dreary, drift away, droop, drop, dry, dry up, dryasdust, duck, dull, dusty, dwindle, ebb, effete, elephantine, empty, erode, etiolate, etiolated, evade, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade away, fade out, fail, faint, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, familiar, fizzle out, flag, flat, flavorless, flee, fleet, flinch, flit, fly, fossilize, fume, fust, fusty, gamble, get along, get on, give out, give way, go, go away, go down, go downhill, go off, go soft, go to pieces, grow dim, grow old, grow pale, gruelly, hackney, hackneyed, hang back, hazard, heavy, hide, hit a slump, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, ho-hum, hollow, inane, indifferent, inexcitable, insipid, jejune, jib, languish, lapse, lay, lay a wager, lay down, leaden, leave no trace, leave the scene, lessen, lifeless, lose color, lose currency, lose strength, low-spirited, make a bet, meet a bet, melt, melt away, melt like snow, mild, milk-and-water, moderate, molder, moth-eaten, move away, move off, muddy, musty, obsolesce, old hat, outdate, pale, pallid, pappy, parlay, pass, pass away, pass out, peak, pedestrian, peg out, perish, peroxide, peter out, pine, platitudinous, play against, plodding, plunge, pointless, poky, ponderous, poop out, pull away, pull back, pulpy, punt, quail, rarefy, reach the depths, recede, recoil, reel back, retire, retire from sight, retreat, retrocede, run down, rust, sag, sapless, savorless, sear, see, set, shake, sheer off, shrink, shrink back, shrivel, shy, sidestep, sink, sink away, slide, slip, slow, slump, spiceless, spiritless, square, stake, stale, stand off, stand pat, start aside, start back, stereotyped, sterile, stiff, stock, stodgy, stuffy, subside, suffer an eclipse, superannuate, superficial, swerve, tarnish, tasteless, tedious, thin, threadbare, timeworn, tone down, totter, touch bottom, trite, truistic, turn aside, turn gray, turn pale, turn white, unflavored, unlively, unoriginal, unsavory, vanish, vanish from sight, vapid, wager, wan, wane, warmed-over, wash out, washy, waste, waste away, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weaken, wear away, wear thin, weasel, weasel out, well-known, well-worn, whiten, widen the distance, wilt, wince, wishy-washy, withdraw, wither, wither away, wizen, wooden, worn, worn thin, wrinkle, yield

Etymology
From fader, from fade.

Adjective

 * French:

Verb

 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:, verslappen,
 * Finnish:, heiketä
 * French: affadir, ,


 * German: verwelken
 * Hungarian:, elhalványul
 * Polish: więdnąć
 * Romanian:


 * Armenian: գունաթափվել
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, kauhtua, himmetä, haaltua


 * French: affadir
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, fakul


 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:, häipyä, , karkota, hämärtyä


 * French:


 * Finnish: haalistaa, himmentää, kauhduttaa, heikentää, häivyttää, hämärtää, haihduttaa, karkottaa


 * Hungarian: halványít, fakít

Anagrams

 * deaf, Deaf
 * EDFA

Noun

 * 1)  father

Etymology
From *undefined:, blend of  fatuus and vapidus.

Adjective

 * 1) tasteless, insipid
 * 2) boring; lukewarm

Synonyms

 * terne, insignifiant

Adjective

 * 1) fade
 * 2) * 1922, Rudolf Steiner, Nationalökonomischer Kurs, Erster Vortrag
 * Solch eine Volkswirtschaftslehre würde der Engländer fade gefunden haben. Man denkt doch über solche Dinge nicht nach, würde er gesagt haben.
 * An Englishman would have thought of such an economical theory as bland. He would have said, "One doesn’t think about such things."