washed out

adjective

1 a washed-out denim jacket:

faded, blanched, bleached, lightened, decolorized;

stonewashed.

▷antonyms bold.

2 wooden shutters of washed-out blue and green:

pale, light, flat, drab, gray, muted, lackluster, lusterless, watery.

▷antonyms vivid.

3 a woman with a worn, washed-out face:

wan, pallid, pale, white, gray, pasty, pasty-faced, anemic, colorless, 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, looking as if one has seen a ghost;

rare lymphatic.

▷antonyms ruddy, flushed.

4 he was looking washed out after his exams:

exhausted, tired (out), worn out, weary, fatigued, spent, drained, enfeebled, enervated, run down;

informal 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;

British, informal knackered, whacked;

North American, informal pooped, tuckered out, gassed;

rare etiolated.

▷antonyms energetic, perky.