Meaning of DISCOMFITURE
| Pronunciation: | | dis'kumfichur
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| | Definition: | | [n] anxious embarrassment |
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| | Synonyms: | | discomposure, disconcertion, disconcertment |
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| | See Also: | | anxiety, embarrassment | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*com"fi*ture\ (?; 135), n. [OF. desconfiture,
F. d['e]confiture. See {Discomfort}, v. t., and cf.
{Comfiture}.]
The act of discomfiting, or the state of being discomfited;
rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and
dejection.
Every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was
a very great discomfiture. --1 Sam. xiv.
20.
A hope destined to end . . . in discomfiture and
disgrace. --Macaulay.
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| | Related Terms: | | abashment, agitation, bafflement, balk, balking, beating, befuddlement, betrayed hope, bewilderment, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, bother, botheration, buffet, chagrin, chaos, check, checkmate, cloud, comedown, commotion, confounding, confusion, cruel disappointment, dash, dashed hope, daze, debacle, defeasance, defeat, derangement, descent, disappointment, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discombobulation, discomposure, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, discountenance, disharmony, dishevelment, disillusionment, disintegration, disjunction, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disorientation, disproportion, disquiet, disruption, dissatisfaction, distress, disturbance, down, drubbing, embarrassment, entropy, failure, fallen countenance, fiasco, fizzle, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, foil, foiling, forlorn hope, frenzy, frustration, fuddle, fuddlement, haphazardness, haze, hope deferred, incoherence, indiscriminateness, inharmonious harmony, irregularity, jumble, letdown, licking, maze, mess, mirage, mist, mortification, most admired disorder, muddle, muddlement, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, overthrow, perplexity, perturbation, pother, prickles, promiscuity, promiscuousness, pucker, randomness, rebuff, repulse, reversal, reverse, rout, ruffle, setback, shellacking, shuffle, sore disappointment, stew, sweat, swivet, tantalization, tease, thwarting, tizzy, turbulence, unease, uneasiness, unsettlement, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, vanquishment |
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