Related Clues:

• Lightened by sunlight
• Not so bright anymore
• Had the temerity to acquire knowledge and became dim!
• Gradually lost color
• No longer au courant
• Became hard to see
• Bill starts to expect disaster after fellow disappeared
• High on marijuana, in slang
• Not as bright as it used to be
• Temporary passion to die, not new, out-of-date
• “She was a ____ but still lovely woman of twenty-seven” (F Scott Fitzgerald, in “a line which certain people will not let me forget”)