shaded

1. 1
   adjective

   Sitting out of direct light, in the shade cast by something overhead.

   The shaded slopes held snow long after the open fields had melted.

   Hikers rested in a shaded hollow where the cliffs blocked the midday sun.

   Similarshady, shadowy

   Oppositesunny, sunlit

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of shade.

   He shaded his eyes against the bright sun.

   The mapmaker shaded the lowlands in pale green.

   Note

   A regular past form, made by adding -d, it carries every sense of the verb. Transitive uses take an object (she shaded the lamp; the artist shaded the background). Intransitive ones stand alone: a color that shaded toward gray, a fielder who shaded a step from his usual spot. After be it can blur into the adjective for darkened drawings. If more fits before it, it is the adjective.

   By evening the sky had shaded toward a deep violet.

   The fielder shaded a few steps away from his usual position.

3. 3
   adjective

   Given a slight color or made a little darker, as in parts of a diagram or drawing.

   The shaded regions on the graph mark where the two datasets overlap.

   He preferred the shaded version of the logo for printing.

   Similartinted

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