fade

fade is a 4-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
2. adjective. To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
3. adjective. To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
4. adjective. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
5. transitive verb. To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.
6. noun. gradually ceasing to be visible

   Synonyms: disappearance

7. noun. a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer

   "he took lessons to cure his slicing"

   Synonyms: slice, slicing

8. verb. become feeble

   "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

   Synonyms: languish

9. verb. become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly

   "The scene begins to fade"

   "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"

   Synonyms: melt

10. verb. disappear gradually

    "The pain eventually passed off"

    Synonyms: evanesce, fleet, pass

11. verb. lose freshness, vigor, or vitality

    "Her bloom was fading"

    Synonyms: wither

Synonyms

disappearance, slice, slicing, languish, melt, evanesce, fleet, pass, wither

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in fade:

deaf

Common word forms

faded, fader, fades, fading, fadeless

Words from these letters

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