disenchanted
/dɪsɪntʃˈæntɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.66 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Disappointed; having lost belief or enthusiasm through bad experience.
adj
Having had a magical spell or enchantment removed; no longer enchanted.
verb
simple past and past participle of disenchant
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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 thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him."
Inflected Forms
more disenchanted (comparative)
most disenchanted (superlative)