fade
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
- Click any word to expand it.
Senses
Sense 1 noun
a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
he took lessons to cure his slicing
Types & categories
- golf stroke hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly
The scene begins to fade
Types & categories
- weaken hypernym
Related & opposite
- fade derivation
Sense 3 noun
gradually ceasing to be visible
Types & categories
- ending hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
Her bloom was fading
Types & categories
- vanish hypernym
Related & opposite
- withering derivation
- attenuation derivation
Sense 5 verb
disappear gradually
The pain eventually passed off
Types & categories
- vanish hypernym
Related & opposite
- passing derivation
- evanescence derivation
- evanescent derivation
Sense 6 verb
become feeble
The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon
Types & categories
- degenerate hypernym
Related & opposite
- attenuation derivation
- languisher derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | slice |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | slice |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | golf stroke |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fade |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | weaken |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | fade |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | disappear |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | vanish |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | ending |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | withering |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | attenuation |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | vanish |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | passing |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | evanescence |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | evanescent |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | vanish |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | attenuation |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | languisher |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | degenerate |