(archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless.

(golf) A golf shot that curves intentionally to the player's right (if they are right-handed) or to the left (if left-handed).

(archaic) Strong; bold; doughty.

(transitive, golf) To hit the ball with the shot called a fade. / (intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.

simple past tense and past participle of fade

(sometimes figuratively) That has lost some of its former colour or intensity. / (US, slang) high on drugs; stoned

A type of transition used in visual media, in which the transition is at first black, fading to a visual image.

To fade from black to a visual image in a film or other visual media. / To begin with silence in a song and slowly increase the volume of music until the song's intro is done.

plural of Fadely

A surname.