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Disenchanted vs Disappointed - What's the difference?

disenchanted | disappointed |

As verbs the difference between disenchanted and disappointed

is that disenchanted is past tense of disenchant while disappointed is past tense of disappoint.

As an adjective disappointed is

defeated of expectation or hope; let down.

disenchanted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (disenchant)

  • disenchant

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To free from illusion, false belief or enchantment; to undeceive or disillusion.
  • To disappoint.
  • To remove a spell or magic enchantment from.
  • Derived terms

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    Anagrams

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    disappointed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Defeated of expectation or hope; let down.
  • * , chapter=3
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed . I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

    Synonyms

    * discomfited * foiled * frustrated * thwarted

    Verb

    (head)
  • (disappoint)