fade

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Old French fader, from fade.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /feɪd/, SAMPA: /feId/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Adjective

fade (comparative fader, superlative fadest)

1. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

Translations

tasteless

French: fade (fr)

Noun

fade (plural fades)

1. (golf) 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.

Translations

golf shot that curves to the right

Verb

fade (third-person singular simple present fades, present participle fading, simple past and past participle faded)

1. (intransitive) To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
2. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
3. (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
   • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 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.

4. (transitive) To cause to fade.

Synonyms

• decrease, wane, become smaller

Translations

to become faded

Armenian: թառամել (hy) (t'aṙamel) Dutch: verzwakken (nl), verslappen (nl), verwelken (nl) (plants) Finnish: heikentyä (fi), heiketä (fi) French: s'affadir (fr), faner (fr), flétrir (fr)

German: verwelken (plant) Hungarian: halványul (hu), elhalványul (hu) Polish: więdnąć (pl) Romanian: apune (ro)

to lose freshness

Armenian: գունաթափվել (hy) (gunat'ap'vel) Dutch: verbleken (nl), verwelken (nl) Finnish: haalistua (fi), kauhtua (fi), himmetä (fi), haaltua (fi)

French: s'affadir (fr) German: verblassen (de) Hungarian: halványul (hu), fakul (hu)

to vanish

Dutch: verzinken (nl), verdwijnen (nl), wegkwijnen (nl) Finnish: haihtua (fi), häipyä (fi), kaikota (fi), karkota (fi), hämärtyä (fi)

French: s'évanouir (fr)

to cause to fade

Finnish: haalistaa (fi), himmentää (fi), kauhduttaa (fi), heikentää (fi), häivyttää (fi), hämärtää (fi), haihduttaa (fi), karkottaa (fi)

Hungarian: halványít (hu), fakít (hu)

Anagrams

• deaf, Deaf
• EDFA

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Danish

Adjective

fade

1. definite of fad
2. plural of fad

Noun

fade n.

1. plural indefinite of fad

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Finnish

Noun

fade

1. (slang) father

Declension

Declension of fade (type nalle) singular plural nominative fade fadet genitive faden fadejen fadein1 partitive fadea fadeja accusative fade faden fadet inessive fadessa fadeissa elative fadesta fadeista illative fadeen fadeihin adessive fadella fadeilla ablative fadelta fadeilta allative fadelle fadeille essive fadena fadeina translative fadeksi fadeiksi instructive – fadein abessive fadetta fadeitta comitative – fadeineen 1) Rare.

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French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *fatidus, blend of Latin fatuus and vapidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fad/

Adjective

fade m. (f. fade, m. plural fades, f. plural fades)

1. tasteless, insipid
2. boring; lukewarm

Synonyms

• (lacking in interesting features): terne, insignifiant

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfaː.də/

Adjective

fade (comparative fader, superlative am fadesten)

1. fade
   • 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."