Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective thwarted; -- used especially of feelings of defeat and discouragement.
- adjective same as
discombobulated . - noun plural people who are defeated.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
discomfit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective disappointingly unsuccessful
- noun people who are defeated
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Examples
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Manuscript, Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia; Edgar Allan Poe explains to John Allan that he was "discomfited" when Allan did not visit him at West Point on the latter's visit to the area.
Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1830 November 6 1830
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This is the book to lend to your mother, and grandmother, and everyone you know; no one will be offended or discomfited.
Ilana Teitelbaum: A Silence Broken: The Help by Kathryn Stockett Ilana Teitelbaum 2011
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I am a bit embarrassed to admit my unshakeable fondness for the royal family and I'm well aware that any further opinions from me may now be obsolete to some readers, but not remotely discomfited to say that I grieved for Princess Diana.
Victoria Coren: why I shall be up at dawn to watch the royal family in all its bizarre glory 2011
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This is the book to lend to your mother, and grandmother, and everyone you know; no one will be offended or discomfited.
Ilana Teitelbaum: A Silence Broken: The Help by Kathryn Stockett Ilana Teitelbaum 2011
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This discomfited some of the Zuccotti inhabitants, aware of anti-Semitism charges against the movement, so an OWSer in an undershirt and porkpie hat poured coffee down the guy's back, who called out to demand his constitutional rights from a bemused-looking senior NYPD official.
Squatting on Wall Street Daniel Henninger 2011
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Their eyes also meet the gaze of the viewer, making him a discomfited witness.
Painting the Middle East With Too Broad a Brush? Richard Holledge 2011
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Smart seems to be alternately discomfited by this fact and resentful of Mrs. Barker's prior and legal claim on the man she loves.
How to Hypnotize Women Con Chapman 2011
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I am nevertheless slightly discomfited by news that Erik Prince, the former SEAL officer and founder of Blackwater, is now in the process of assembling a mercenary battalion for the United Arab Emirates.
David Isenberg: PMC und Drang in the Persian Gulf David Isenberg 2011
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Though I tried not to be too socially inappropriate, I must have discomfited a lot of people.
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I am nevertheless slightly discomfited by news that Erik Prince, the former SEAL officer and founder of Blackwater, is now in the process of assembling a mercenary battalion for the United Arab Emirates.
David Isenberg: PMC und Drang in the Persian Gulf David Isenberg 2011
yarb commented on the word discomfited
Crossing the campus
with a 6 by 6 canvas
in a force 7,
the art student looks like a
discomfited Wright brother.
His large oil depicts
a seagull in a tweed suit
boxing with a fox
who wears muffler and flat cap.
(An allegory, I think.)
- Peter Reading, Nips, from Diplopic, 1983
June 30, 2008