WASHED-OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does washed-out mean? 

• WASHED-OUT (adjective)
  The adjective WASHED-OUT has 2 senses:

1. drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted

2. having lost freshness or brilliance of color

  Familiarity information: WASHED-OUT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WASHED-OUT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted

Synonyms:

dog-tired; exhausted; fagged; fatigued; gone; played out; spent; washed-out; worn-out; worn out

Context example:

you look worn out

Similar:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having lost freshness or brilliance of color

Synonyms:

bleached; faded; washed-out; washy

Context example:

washy colors

Similar:

colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)

 Context examples 

The coat comes in red, fawn, brindle, pale yellow or washed-out red, or white, and can combine any of these colors.

(English Bulldog, NCI Thesaurus)

The coat comes in red, fawn, brindle, pale yellow or washed-out red, or white.

(Bulldog, NCI Thesaurus)

He was flaxen-haired and handsome, in a washed-out negative fashion, with frightened blue eyes, and a clean-shaven face, with a weak, sensitive mouth.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)