Fade

Quick meaning: Fade is an adjective meaning (golf) A golf shot that curves intentionally to the player's right (if they are right-handed) or to the left (if left-handed).

Meaning

(golf) A golf shot that curves intentionally to the player's right (if they are right-handed) or to the left (if left-handed).

More Meanings

1. A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
2. (transitive, golf) To hit the ball with the shot called a fade.
3. (intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
4. (music, cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song).
5. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless.
6. (slang) A fight.
7. (slang) The act of disappearing from a place so as not to be found; covert departure.

Example Sentences

[flowers] that never fade

The earth mourneth and fadeth away.

His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.

1825, Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, review of Theodric by Thomas Campbell Passages that are somewhat fade.

Word Forms

• fader
• fadest
• fades
• fading
• faded

Synonyms for fade

Depending on context, synonyms include weaken, wither, blanch, bleach, decrease, diminish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include languish, wither, evanesce, disappearance, pass, slice.

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