disenchanted
disenchanted adjective: disappointed; having lost belief or enthusiasm through bad experience. Also the simple past and past participle of disenchant.
Adjective
disenchanted (comparative more disenchanted, superlative most disenchanted)
- Disappointed; having lost belief or enthusiasm through bad experience.
- I visited Chiang Kai-shek at a lake resort on Taiwan. Chiang still dreamed of returning to the mainland, and once again he urged that America support such an effort. He argued that the Chinese on the mainland were disenchanted with their leaders and ready to rally to another force.1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 282
- Having had a magical spell or enchantment removed; no longer enchanted.
- And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a...1924, Lord Dunsany, chapter III, in The King of Elfland's Daughter, New York: G.P. Puttnam's Sons, page 30
Also used as
disenchanted is also the simple past and past participle of disenchant.
Forms of disenchanted
| comparative | more disenchanted |
|---|---|
| superlative | most disenchanted |
Words formed from disenchanted
Questions about disenchanted
- What does disenchanted mean?
- Disenchanted means disappointed; having lost belief or enthusiasm through bad experience.
- What part of speech is disenchanted?
- Disenchanted is an adjective.
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