Crestfallen vs Null - What's the difference?
crestfallen | null |
Sad because of a recent disappointment.
Depressed.
(obsolete, of a horse) Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side.
'Yes,' said Holmes; 'by John Underwood and Sons, 129, Camberwell Road.'
Gregson looked quite crestfallen .
'I had no idea that you noticed that,'he said. "Have you been there?'
'No.'" * 1897 — , ch. 12 *: Hall tried to convey everything by grimaces and dumb show, but Mrs. Hall was obdurate. She raised her voice. So Hall and Henfrey, rather crestfallen , tiptoed back to the bar, gesticulating to explain to her. * 1908 — , ch. 6 *: 'He did it awfully well,' said the crestfallen Rat. * 1946 — , ch. 15 *: I rushed there; no lamp! Crestfallen , I returned to my guru. * 2010 — , ch. -3 *: Yes, unfortunately, she'd heard him correctly. She was crestfallen . Here she'd come so far to ask him the question, and he didn't know the answer. A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective crestfallen
is sad because of a recent disappointment.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.crestfallen
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Quotations
{{timeline, 1800s=1876 1887 1897, 1900s=1908 1946, 2000s=2010}} * 1876 — , ch. XII *: Tom's cheeks burned. He gathered himself up and sneaked off, crushed and crestfallen . * 1887 — , ch. VI *: "'...You remember the hat beside the dead man?''Yes,' said Holmes; 'by John Underwood and Sons, 129, Camberwell Road.'
Gregson looked quite crestfallen .
'I had no idea that you noticed that,'he said. "Have you been there?'
'No.'" * 1897 — , ch. 12 *: Hall tried to convey everything by grimaces and dumb show, but Mrs. Hall was obdurate. She raised her voice. So Hall and Henfrey, rather crestfallen , tiptoed back to the bar, gesticulating to explain to her. * 1908 — , ch. 6 *: 'He did it awfully well,' said the crestfallen Rat. * 1946 — , ch. 15 *: I rushed there; no lamp! Crestfallen , I returned to my guru. * 2010 — , ch. -3 *: Yes, unfortunately, she'd heard him correctly. She was crestfallen . Here she'd come so far to ask him the question, and he didn't know the answer.
Synonyms
* (sad because of a recent disappointment): disappointed, disillusioned * (depressed): blue, dejected, despondent, depressed, downcast, down in the dumps, sorrowfulDerived terms
* crest-fall * crestfallenly * crestfallennessnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.