jaded

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Meaning tired and bored from having too much of something

Memory hook a tired old JADE (a worn-out horse). An old word for a worn-out horse is a jade. Dusty has pulled the parade wagon a thousand times, and not even the brass band excites him now: he is jaded.

After ten summers at the same beach, the jaded teenagers barely looked at the waves.

In context Having eaten at every fancy restaurant in the city, the critic had grown jaded; dishes that thrilled other diners only made her yawn.

Similar weary, world-weary, blasé, sated

Opposite eager, enthusiastic, fresh

From jade, an old word for a worn-out horse.

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