fading beauty
Attractiveness slipping away
Fading beauty describes attractiveness that is diminishing with age or time.
The phrase typically refers to a person—often a woman—whose physical appeal is waning: She was a fading beauty, still striking but no longer turning heads.
It carries a melancholy tone, acknowledging both what remains and what has been lost.
The concept extends to anything whose former splendor is declining: the fading beauty of the old theater.
- wiltingLosing turgor and drooping
- decayGradual organic breakdown
- witheringDrying and declining
- dried flowersDehydrated ornamental plants
- fleetingPassing very quickly
transient · ephemeral · passing time · wrinkles · crow's feet · petals · sunset · autumn · roses · dust · mirror · vanity · former glory · lost youth · aging · golden years · bloom · pallor
- agingaging process, aging body, biological age, aging workforce, aging parents
- melancholysadness, sorrow, gloom, woe, dejection
- elegydirge, eulogy, lament, lamentation, requiem
fade, faded, fades, fading, beautiful, beautifully, beautify, beautified, beautification