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Faded vs Discolored - What's the difference?

faded | discolored |

As verbs the difference between faded and discolored

is that faded is (fade) while discolored is (discolor).

As adjectives the difference between faded and discolored

is that faded is that has lost some of its former colour or intensity while discolored is deprived of color, or given the wrong color; pale, stained.

faded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fade)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has lost some of its former colour or intensity.

    • Derived terms

    * fadedly * fadedness

    discolored

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete) * (obsolete) * discoloured

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deprived of color, or given the wrong color; pale, stained.
  • (obsolete) Multicolored.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xi:
    • Iris bright [...] her discolourd bow she spreds through heauens hight.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (discolor)