to feel jaded

Meanings

1. 1phrasefixed phrase

   to feel tired and no longer interested in something because you have done or seen too much of it.

   Grammar: Used with the verb feel: I feel jaded. It describes a state, so it is not usually used in the progressive.

   Patterns

   • feel jaded after something
   • feel jaded with something
   • feel jaded by something

   After ten years in the same job, she began to feel jaded.

   He still enjoys teaching, but some of his colleagues feel jaded.

   I felt jaded after reading so many reports on the same subject.

2. 2phraselinking

   to seem tired and uninterested because you have experienced too much of the same thing.

   Grammar: Can follow look, seem, or sound when describing someone's manner: he looks jaded.

   Patterns

   • look jaded
   • seem jaded

   The team looked jaded after a long season of matches.

   She sounded jaded when she talked about dating again.

Common combinations

feel jaded with life

After years of setbacks, he started to feel jaded with life.

a jaded attitude

Her jaded attitude worried the new manager.

grow jaded

Reporters grow jaded after covering too many sad stories.

feel jaded after doing something

I felt jaded after working every weekend for a month.

Synonyms and how they differ

weary

Weary is more about physical or emotional tiredness and can be used without the idea of having seen too much.

bored

Bored simply means not interested right now, while jaded suggests long experience has worn away your enthusiasm.

blasé

Blasé means unimpressed because you have seen it all, and it is slightly more formal and often disapproving.

Opposites

Word family

jadedly adverb

in a tired, uninterested way

jadedness noun

the state of being tired and uninterested

Commonly confused: to feel jaded or tired?

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