BLEACHED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bleached mean? 

• BLEACHED (adjective)
  The adjective BLEACHED has 2 senses:

1. having lost freshness or brilliance of color

2. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural

  Familiarity information: BLEACHED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLEACHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having lost freshness or brilliance of color

Synonyms:

bleached; faded; washed-out; washy

Context example:

washy colors

Similar:

colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(used of color) artificially produced; not natural

Synonyms:

bleached; colored; coloured; dyed

Context example:

a bleached blonde

Similar:

artificial; unreal (contrived by art rather than nature)

 Context examples 

An environmental stress indicator for coral; if conditions for corals are not optimum, the corals will expel the algae that live among the living polyps, therefore giving the colony a bleached appearance.

(Coral bleaching, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

"Just look at plastic playground toys, park benches, or lawn chairs, which can rapidly become sun-bleached."

(Sunlight degrades polystyrene faster than expected, National Science Foundation)

“They got away,” I said cheerfully; but I felt a sinking at the heart and seemed to divine the presence of bleached bones somewhere on that beach.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I am simply, in my original state—stripped of that blood-bleached robe with which Christianity covers human deformity—a cold, hard, ambitious man.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Martin's sunburn had been bleached by his work in the laundry and by the indoor life he was living, while the hunger and the sickness had made his face even pale; and across this pallor flowed the slow wave of a blush.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I shall gather manna for her morning and night: the plains and hillsides in the moon are bleached with manna, Adele.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)