jaded

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   adjective

   Tired, bored, or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having had too much of something or long experience of it.

   Like a song you once loved that loses its spark after months on repeat.

   Frequent travelers can become jaded, barely glancing at views that leave others speechless.

   The producer had heard so many demo tapes that he sounded jaded about every new act.

   UsageOften followed by about or by, or in too jaded to + verb.

   Similarweary, bored, tired

   Oppositeenthusiastic, eager, fresh

   Note

   Boredom with a cause behind it: the dulled appetite that follows having too much of something. Its nearest relatives are sated, glutted, cloyed and surfeited, words of overeating carried over to experience. H. G. Wells sets it beside tired and worried in "Little Mother Up the Mörderberg" (1910). Unlike the cynical, hardened meaning, this one concerns appetite rather than feeling. Source

   Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 2 facts

   • H. G. Wells uses jaded alongside tired and worried in the named story. victorianvoices.net
   • The story was first published in 1910. en.wikipedia.org
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   cynicaladjective

   Made callous or cynically unfeeling toward others as a result of harsh experience.

   Long exposure to courtroom cruelty had turned the public defender jaded and slow to trust.

   After twenty years of fraud cases, the detective was too jaded to believe anyone's story.

   Similarworld-weary

   Oppositeidealistic, trusting, naive, innocent

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   made (someone) boredverb

   Simple past and past participle of jade.

   A season of back-to-back tours had jaded the band, so they canceled the last few shows.

   By midwinter the constant overwork had jaded every horse in the stable.

   Note

   Older English also used it to mean to spurn someone or to make them contemptible, senses now obsolete. Its living sense, to tire, is the one behind the "weary, bored" adjective. The green stone shares the spelling but not this verb. Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 4 facts

   • Jade formerly meant to spurn. en.wiktionary.org
   • Jade formerly meant to make someone contemptible. en.wiktionary.org
   • The adjective jaded belongs to the horse-related word family, rather than the stone's. en.wiktionary.org
   • The stone's name has a separate French and Spanish origin. en.wikipedia.org

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