# jaded

Pronunciation: say "JAY-did" /ˈd͡ʒeɪdɪd/

## Adjective

1. Tired, bored, or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having had too much of something or long experience of it.
   - Simple: Bored and no longer excited, because you have done or seen something too much.
   - _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._
2. Made callous or cynically unfeeling toward others as a result of harsh experience.
   - Simple: Made hard and uncaring because of bad experiences over time.
   - _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._

## Verb

3. Simple past and past participle of jade. — simple past and past participle of jade
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of jade. Use this form when talking about wearing someone or something out in the past.
   - _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._

## Origin

The word is based on jade ("worn-out horse"). Jade may have come from jalda, an Old Norse word for a mare, and from 1560 people also used it as an insult for a woman.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/jaded (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).