Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb shade

5 senses of shade

Sense 1
shadow, shade, shade off -- (cast a shadow over)
       => darken -- (make dark or darker; "darken a room")

Sense 2
shade, fill in -- (represent the effect of shade or shadow on)
       => draw -- (represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface; "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse")
       => paint -- (make a painting; "he painted all day in the garden"; "He painted a painting of the garden")

Sense 3
shade -- (protect from light, heat, or view; "Shade your eyes when you step out into the bright sunlight")
       => screen, block out -- (prevent from entering; "block out the strong sunlight")

Sense 4
shade -- (vary slightly; "shade the meaning")
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")

Sense 5
shade -- (pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree; "the butterfly wings shade to yellow")
       => change -- (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night")

Antonyms of adj shaded

2 senses of shaded

Sense 1
shaded (vs. unshaded) -- (protected from heat and light with shade or shadow; "shaded avenues"; "o'er the shaded billows rushed the night"- Alexander Pope)

unshaded (vs. shaded) -- (not darkened or dimmed by shade; "an unshaded meadow"; "a bright and unshaded lane")
        => unshadowed -- (not darkened or obscured by shadow; "on the rough sea ice you may on an unshadowed day...fall over a chunk of ice that is kneehigh"- Vilhjalmur Stefansson)

Sense 2
shaded (vs. unshaded) -- ((of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow; "the shaded areas of the face seemed to recede")

unshaded (vs. shaded) -- ((of pictures) not having shadow represented; "unshaded drawings resembling cartoons")

Similarity of adj shaded

2 senses of shaded

Sense 1
shaded (vs. unshaded) -- (protected from heat and light with shade or shadow; "shaded avenues"; "o'er the shaded billows rushed the night"- Alexander Pope)
       => murky, mirky -- (dark or gloomy; "a murky dungeon"; "murky rooms lit by smoke-blackened lamps")
       => shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous -- (filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands")

Sense 2
shaded (vs. unshaded) -- ((of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow; "the shaded areas of the face seemed to recede")
       => hatched, crosshatched -- (shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines)