Adjective: fade
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | fader |
| Superlative | fadest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fade |
| Superlative | most fade |
Sample Sentences
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1825, Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, review of Theodric by Thomas Campbell
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Passages that are somewhat fade.
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His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous. [1827, Thomas De Quincey, “The Last Days of Kant”, in Blackwood's Magazine:]
Adjectives inflected like fade
serene,
severe,
secure,
sedate,
wheelie,
simple,
complete,
fulsome,
sprightlie,
discrete,
plosive,
bizarre,
brusque,
brittle,
wholesome,
sincere,
shystie,
loveable,
prophane,
terrible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English fade, vad, vade (“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from Middle Dutch vade (“weak, faint, limp”), from Old French fade (“weak, witless”), of obscure origin. Probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from Latin fatuus (“insipid”). See: Latin Adjectives '
fatuus'.