🌓 A slight difference 🌳 An area out of sun 🪟 A light cover ✋ To block light 🎨 A shadow area 🔄 To adjust slightly ✏️ To add shadow 👻 A haunting memory 😏 To insult indirectly

to shade

1 8.2

To insult someone without saying it directly using a sharp remark

verb
/ʃeɪd/

Offensive

: lanzar indirectas

To which Denny's threw some serious shade with this reply.

Let's shade Tom Ford for a moment.

Examples

I mean not to shade Beauty Blender, but this is my more flawless side.
Interesting idea, but Nicki T is already throwing shade on that V Day report.
I'm going to just throw in a little shade in this video.
Let's not pick, choose, and rank sins to try and shade another person.

Blog text (2)
Some of these questions are throwing some serious shade, but here you go, August McKenna says.
But it turns out that voguing was originally how you used to throw shade physically, non verbally.
Ironically, the narcissistic person would say that anyone who's casting shade on their posts is just jealous.
She always manages to shade her competitors with those subtle remarks about their performances.
During the meeting, he couldn't help but shade his colleague with a few cutting comments about their project.
When she said that idea was 'interesting,' I knew it was just a way to shade my suggestion subtly.

Synonyms

to slur

vsto shade

Offensive

1 7.7

To say insulting things about someone to harm their reputation

is indirect and sly using subtle cutting remarks rather than open insults

Antonyms

compliment

342 1.6

A polite remark that praises someone or something

praise

161 1.0

Words or actions that show admiration for someone

Idioms

in the shade

26 1.0

In a place protected from direct sun that is cooler

made in the shade

Informal

1 8.2

In a safe, easy situation needing little effort

Phrasal Verbs

to shade off

4.3

To make a place darker by blocking the light

Compounds

shade tree

4 2.2

A large tree that gives shade from the sun

window shade

3 2.0

A piece of material you pull down to block light or give privacy at a window

shade of red

1 4.2

A change in how red someone's face becomes when they feel embarrassed

melony shade

7.4

A pink-red color like the inside of a watermelon

noonday shade

5.2

A cool place out of the sun at midday, often under a tree

How Insulting

insult

Offensive

313 1.3

to diss

Offensive

62 8.4

to snub

7 6.3

to shade

Offensive

1 8.2

to tease

245 1.9

Surface Forms

shade infinitive

shaded past

shaded past participle

shading present participle

shades third person singular

Etymology

A helpful way to remember the slang verb shade is to think of 'throwing a shadow' over someone. To shade someone now means to give a small, cutting comment that quietly hurts or lowers them, like a tiny shadow on their reputation.