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disillusionary

disillusionary adjective: causing disillusion.

Adjective

disillusionary (comparative more disillusionary, superlative most disillusionary)

  1. Causing disillusion.
    • With newspapers, radio and television doing so much of our thinking for us, politics or, more particularly, gossip about politicians, is now on everyone's tongue. And what a disillusionary experience it is! These would-be immortals are revealed as frail and vain beings at every utterance.1957, Industrial Society, volumes 39-40, page 31
    • This is related to Moltmann's thought that "The starting point of this socialist revolution lies in the disillusionary experience of the French and capitalist revolutions.1970, Herbert Aptheker, The urgency of Marxist-Christian dialogue, page 41

Forms of disillusionary

comparativemore disillusionary
superlativemost disillusionary

Questions about disillusionary

What does disillusionary mean?
Disillusionary means causing disillusion.
What part of speech is disillusionary?
Disillusionary is an adjective.

Words near disillusionary in the dictionary

  1. disilluminate
  2. disilluminated
  3. disilluminates
  4. disilluminating
  5. disillusion
  6. disillusionary
  7. disillusioned
  8. disillusioning
  9. disillusionise
  10. disillusionised
  11. disillusionises

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