JADED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jaded mean? 

• JADED (adjective)
  The adjective JADED has 2 senses:

1. exhausted

2. dulled by surfeit

  Familiarity information: JADED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JADED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exhausted

Synonyms:

jaded; wearied

Context example:

my father's words had left me jaded and depressed

Similar:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dulled by surfeit

Context example:

the amoral, jaded, bored upper classes

Similar:

satiate; satiated (supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction)

 Context examples 

It had never been jaded by study, and it bit hold of the knowledge in the books with sharp teeth that would not let go.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Next day at morning lesson the teacher observed that his pupil was indeed looking pale and jaded, with listless eyes and a weary manner.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My spirits are quite jaded with listening to his nonsense: and then, being such a smart young fellow, I saw every eye was upon us.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I had had a hard day's work, and was pretty well jaded when I came climbing out, at last, upon the level of Blackheath.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Four times he had covered the distance between Salt Water and Dawson, and the knowledge that, jaded and tired, he was facing the same trail once more, made him bitter.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He was too tired and jaded to be interested in anything, though he planned to leave Saturday afternoon, if they finished at three, and ride on his wheel to Oakland.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In the joyfulness of family love everything for a short time was subdued, and the pleasure of seeing her, leaving them at first little leisure for calm curiosity, they were all seated round the tea-table, which Mrs. Morland had hurried for the comfort of the poor traveller, whose pale and jaded looks soon caught her notice, before any inquiry so direct as to demand a positive answer was addressed to her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Yes; and the sense of being unfit for it, or of not having understood it, or of having shown his condition in spite of himself, seems to make him so uneasy, that next day he is worse, and next day worse, and so he becomes jaded and haggard.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The boisterous impact of it on Martin's jaded mind was a hurt.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)