Definition of "washed-out" []

• Lacking color or intensity; faded. (adjective)
• Exhausted or tired-looking. (adjective)
• Having dropped a project or an enterprise or having been dropped from one: a washed-out officer candidate. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In my uncle's diary of symptoms, light is described as washed-out moon color."
• "It will take more than a washed-out holiday weekend to put a smile back on the faces of European farmers—and policy makers."
• "You should stop wearing ratty, washed-out colors like gray and brown."