fades

The word “fades” has 1 syllable: fades

It's pronounced as /feɪdz/


What is synonym and antonym for fades?

In the thesaurus, “fades” has 91 synonyms and 50 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for fades along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for fades

  • French twists
  • Mohawk
  • Mohawks
  • beehives
  • big hairs
  • blanches
  • bleaches
  • blenches
  • blurs
  • bobs
  • braids
  • breaks down
  • brightens
  • buns
  • buzz cuts
  • chignons
  • clears
  • coiffures
  • comb-overs
  • conks
  • crew cuts
  • crops
  • cuts
  • decays
  • decolorizes
  • degenerates
  • dematerializes
  • deteriorates
  • dims
  • disappears
  • disperses
  • dissipates
  • dissolves
  • dos
  • dries up
  • droops
  • drops out of sight
  • ducktails
  • dulls
  • emaciates
  • etiolates
  • evanesces
  • evaporates
  • fails
  • flags
  • flees
  • flies
  • frosts
  • goes
  • hair styles
  • haircuts
  • hairdos
  • hairstyles
  • lags
  • languishes
  • lightens
  • mats
  • mattes
  • matts
  • melts
  • pageboys
  • pales
  • permanents
  • perms
  • pigtails
  • plaits
  • pompadours
  • ponytails
  • pugs
  • queues
  • roaches
  • rots
  • runs down
  • sags
  • shags
  • shingles
  • silvers
  • sinks
  • snows
  • trims
  • updos
  • upsweeps
  • vanishes
  • washes out
  • weakens
  • wears out
  • whitens
  • whitewashes
  • wilts
  • withers
  • yields

Antonyms for fades

  • appears
  • arrives
  • blackens
  • blotches
  • breaks out
  • burnishes
  • checkers
  • colors
  • comes out
  • convalesces
  • dapples
  • darkens
  • daubs
  • deepens
  • discolors
  • dyes
  • embrowns
  • emerges
  • flecks
  • gains
  • issues
  • looms
  • marbles
  • materializes
  • mottles
  • paints
  • patterns
  • pigments
  • polishes
  • polychromes
  • rallies
  • rebounds
  • recovers
  • recuperates
  • shades
  • shines
  • shows up
  • speckles
  • specks
  • splotches
  • spots
  • stains
  • streaks
  • striates
  • stripes
  • tarnishes
  • tinctures
  • tinges
  • tints
  • variegates

Meanings of fades

  • noun
    1. A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
    2. 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.
    3. A fight.
    4. 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. The act of disappearing from a place so as not to be found; covert departure.
  • verb
    1. To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
    2. To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
    3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
    4. To cause to fade.
    5. To bet against.

Example Sentences

  • As the sun sets, the light gradually fades from the sky.
  • With time, the color of the fabric slowly fades.
  • The memory of that day never truly fades from my mind.
  • In autumn, the vibrant green of the leaves fades into shades of yellow and orange.
  • The applause of the audience fades as the curtain falls on the final act.

On this page you'll find 141 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to fades, such as: French twists, Mohawk, Mohawks, appears, arrives, beehives, big hairs.

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Related Words

darkens

  • abases
  • adumbrates
  • angers
  • bastardizes
  • becloud
  • beclouds
  • bedim
  • bedims
  • befogs
  • begrimes
  • besmears
  • besmirches
  • blacken
  • blackens
  • blacks out
  • blears
  • blemishes
  • blots out
  • blurs
  • bristles
  • broods
  • camouflages
  • cheapens
  • cloaks
  • closes in
  • cloud over
  • cloud up
  • clouds
  • colors
  • conceals
  • corrupts
  • covers
  • curtains
  • debases
  • debauches
  • deepen
  • degrades
  • demeans
  • demoralizes
  • depraves
  • dim
  • dims
  • dirties
  • discolors
  • discredits
  • disgraces
  • disguises
  • dishonors
  • dislimns
  • distorts
  • dusks
  • eclipse
  • eclipses
  • fades
  • fog
  • fogs
  • fouls
  • frowns
  • fumes
  • glares
  • glooms
  • glowers
  • gray
  • haze
  • hazes
  • hides
  • intimidates
  • lours
  • lowers
  • make dim
  • mars
  • masks
  • menaces
  • mists
  • mopes
  • murk
  • obfuscate
  • obliterates
  • obscure
  • obscures
  • overcast
  • overcasts
  • overclouds
  • overshadow
  • overshadows
  • perverts
  • pets
  • poisons
  • pollutes
  • pouts
  • rages
  • scowls
  • screens
  • shade
  • shades
  • shadow
  • shadows
  • shames
  • shrouds
  • sinks
  • smears
  • smirches
  • smudges
  • smuts
  • soils
  • spoils
  • stains
  • stares
  • steams
  • storms
  • subverts
  • sulks
  • sullies
  • taints
  • tarnishes
  • tarres
  • tars
  • threatens
  • tone down
  • touches
  • twists
  • veils
  • vitiates
  • wanes

decays

  • crumbles
  • declines
  • decomposes
  • descends
  • deteriorates
  • disintegrates
  • fades
  • goes
  • rots
  • sags
  • sinks
  • weakens
  • worsens

fails

  • abort
  • acts up
  • back out
  • back wrong horse
  • backslide
  • be cleaned out
  • be defeated
  • be demoted
  • be found lacking
  • be in arrears
  • be in vain
  • be ruined
  • be taken to the cleaners
  • become insolvent
  • blink
  • blunder
  • bombs
  • break
  • break down
  • breaks
  • breaks down
  • chagrins
  • cheats
  • close
  • close down
  • collapses
  • come to naught
  • come to nothing
  • comes a cropper
  • comes to grief
  • comes up empty
  • crash
  • crashes
  • craters
  • crumbles
  • cuts out
  • decays
  • deceives
  • decline
  • declines
  • defalcate
  • default
  • defaults
  • degenerates
  • deludes
  • desert
  • deteriorate
  • deteriorates
  • dies
  • dies on the vine
  • disappoint
  • disappoints
  • discontents
  • discount
  • disenchants
  • disgruntles
  • dishonor
  • disillusions
  • displeases
  • disregard
  • disregards
  • dissatisfies
  • distresses
  • droops
  • drop
  • drop a bundle
  • emaciates
  • end
  • fades
  • fall
  • fall flat
  • fall short
  • fall through
  • falls flat
  • falls short
  • fault
  • finish
  • fizzle
  • fizzles
  • flags
  • flames out
  • flop
  • flops
  • flounder
  • flounders
  • flunks
  • fold
  • folds
  • forget
  • forgets
  • founder
  • founders
  • funk
  • gives out
  • go astray
  • go bankrupt
  • go belly up
  • go broke
  • go bust
  • go down
  • go down swinging
  • go downhill
  • go into Chapter 11
  • go out of business
  • go to the wall
  • go under
  • go up
  • go up in smoke
  • go wrong
  • goes
  • goes under
  • hit bottom
  • hit the skids
  • ignore
  • ignores
  • implodes
  • jams
  • lags
  • languishes
  • lays an egg
  • let down
  • lets down
  • lose big
  • lose control
  • lose out
  • lose status
  • malfunctions
  • meet with disaster
  • miscarries
  • miscarry
  • misfires
  • miss
  • miss the boat
  • misses
  • misses out on
  • mocks
  • neglect
  • neglects
  • omit
  • omits
  • overdraw
  • overlook
  • overlooks
  • overpass
  • overpasses
  • passes over
  • play into
  • pretermits
  • repudiate
  • rots
  • run aground
  • runs down
  • sags
  • self-destructs
  • sinks
  • skids
  • skips
  • slides
  • slight
  • slights
  • slip
  • slips
  • slumps
  • sputters
  • stalls
  • strikes out
  • struggles
  • tanks
  • terminate
  • turn out badly
  • upsets
  • wanes
  • washes out
  • weakens
  • wears out
  • wheezes
  • wilts
  • withers
  • yields

falls

  • abates
  • alleviates
  • angles
  • avalanche
  • backslides
  • bites the dust
  • bombs
  • bows
  • bows out
  • breaches
  • breaks
  • breaks the law
  • buckles
  • buys it
  • buys the farm
  • cants
  • capitulates
  • cascade
  • cataract
  • checks out
  • chute
  • cocks
  • collapses
  • compresses
  • concedes
  • condenses
  • constricts
  • consumes
  • contracts
  • crashes
  • craters
  • croaks
  • crumples
  • de-escalates
  • deceases
  • declines
  • decreases
  • deflates
  • deluge
  • demises
  • departs
  • descends
  • dies
  • diminishes
  • dips
  • disappears
  • dives
  • downrush
  • dries up
  • droops
  • drops
  • dwindles
  • eases
  • ebbs
  • ends
  • errs
  • evaporates
  • exits
  • expires
  • fades
  • fails
  • falls away
  • falls from grace
  • falters
  • flags
  • flatlines
  • flood
  • flops
  • flume
  • flumps
  • flunks
  • folds
  • force
  • forfeits
  • founders
  • fountain
  • free-falls
  • gives out
  • gives up
  • gives up the ghost
  • goes
  • hands over
  • heels
  • inclines
  • infringes
  • keels
  • kicks in
  • kicks off
  • kicks the bucket
  • knuckles under
  • lapses
  • leans
  • lessens
  • lets up
  • lists
  • loses
  • lowers
  • messes up
  • misses
  • moderates
  • nose-dives
  • offends
  • outpouring
  • palls
  • parts
  • passes away
  • pegs out
  • perishes
  • phases down
  • plonks
  • plops
  • plummets
  • plunges
  • plunks
  • pops off
  • precipitates
  • precipitation
  • predeceases
  • rapids
  • recedes
  • reclines
  • relaxes
  • relents
  • relinquishes
  • remits
  • retreats
  • shoot
  • shower
  • shrinks
  • shute
  • sinks
  • sins
  • skids
  • slackens
  • slants
  • slides
  • slips
  • slopes
  • snuffs it
  • spout
  • steps out
  • strays
  • strikes out
  • stumbles
  • submits
  • subsides
  • succumbs
  • surrenders
  • takes the count
  • tanks
  • tapers
  • tapers off
  • throws
  • tilts
  • tips
  • topples
  • torrent
  • transgresses
  • trespasses
  • trips
  • tumbles
  • vanishes
  • violates
  • wanders
  • wanes
  • washes out
  • watercourse
  • waterfall
  • weakens
  • white water
  • wipes out

hair styles

  • French twists
  • Mohawk
  • Mohawks
  • beehives
  • big hairs
  • bobs
  • braids
  • buns
  • buzz cuts
  • chignons
  • coiffures
  • comb-overs
  • conks
  • crew cuts
  • crops
  • cuts
  • dos
  • ducktails
  • fades
  • haircuts
  • hairdos
  • pageboys
  • permanents
  • perms
  • pigtails
  • plaits
  • pompadours
  • ponytails
  • pugs
  • queues
  • roaches
  • shags
  • shingles
  • trims
  • updos
  • upsweeps

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