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washed out adjective [ wɒʃt ˈaʊt ]

• faded by sunlight or repeated washing.
• "washed-out jeans"
Similar: faded, blanched, bleached, lightened, decolorized, stonewashed, pale, light, flat, drab, grey, muted, lacklustre, lustreless, watery,
Opposite: bold, vivid,
• (of a person) pale and tired.
• "he had pale grey eyes that made him appear tired and washed-out"
Similar: wan, pallid, pale, white, grey, pasty, pasty-faced, anaemic, colourless, bloodless, drawn, haggard, blanched, drained, pinched, peaky, peakish, ashen, ashen-faced, chalky, chalk white, waxy, waxen, sickly, sallow, whey-faced, ghostly, deathlike, deathly pale, as white as a sheet, lymphatic, exhausted, tired (out), worn out, weary, fatigued, spent, enfeebled, enervated, run down, all in, done in, dead on one's feet, dead, dog-tired, played out, knocked out, bushed, fagged (out), beat, zonked, like death warmed up, knackered, whacked, pooped, tuckered out, etiolated,
Opposite: ruddy, flushed, energetic, perky,


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