"crestfallen" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈkɹɛstfɔːlən/ [UK], /ˈkɹɛstfɔlən/ [US], /ˈkɹɛstfɑlən/ [cot-caught-merger] Audio: en-us-crestfallen.ogg , en-au-crestfallen.ogg Forms: more crestfallen [comparative], most crestfallen [superlative]
Etymology: From crest + fallen, from the appearance of a horse with its crest (head) on its chest after defeat in a battle. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|crest|fallen}} crest + fallen Head templates: {{en-adj}} crestfallen (comparative more crestfallen, superlative most crestfallen)
  1. Sad because of a disappointment. Categories (topical): Emotions, Sadness Synonyms (depressed): blue, dejected, despondent, depressed, downcast, down in the dumps, sorrowful Synonyms (sad because of a recent disappointment): disappointed, disillusioned Translations (depressed): паднал духом (padnal duhom) (Bulgarian), 沮喪 (Chinese Mandarin), 沮丧 (jǔsàng) (Chinese Mandarin), gedeprimeerd (Dutch), teneergeslagen (Dutch), allapäin (Finnish), masentunut (Finnish), niedergeschlagen (German), csüggedt (Hungarian), levert (Hungarian), нераспо́ложен (neraspóložen) (Macedonian), удручённый (udručónnyj) (Russian), уны́лый (unýlyj) (Russian), пода́вленный (podávlennyj) (Russian), па́дший ду́хом (pádšij dúxom) (Russian), упа́вший ду́хом (upávšij dúxom) (Russian), murrio [colloquial] (Spanish) Translations (sad because of a recent disappointment): клюмнал (kljumnal) (Bulgarian), унил (unil) (Bulgarian), 喪氣 (Chinese Mandarin), 丧气 (sàngqì) (Chinese Mandarin), 氣餒 (Chinese Mandarin), 气馁 (qìněi) (Chinese Mandarin), 垂頭喪氣 (Chinese Mandarin), 垂头丧气 (chuítóusàngqì) (Chinese Mandarin), sklíčený [masculine] (Czech), skleslý (Czech), beteuterd (Dutch), allapäin (Finnish), pää painuksissa (Finnish), déçu (French), abattu (French), enttäuscht (German), geknickt (German), csalódott (Hungarian), elszontyolodott (Hungarian), letört (Hungarian), orrát lógatva (Hungarian), lógó orral (Hungarian), a testa bassa (Italian), по́тиснат (pótisnat) (Macedonian), tapou (Maori), para (Maori), parakore (Maori), frasobliwy (Polish), strapiony (Polish), zafrasowany (Polish), zmartwiony (Polish), cabisbaixo (Portuguese), уны́лый (unýlyj) (Russian), пода́вленный (podávlennyj) (Russian), alicaído (Spanish), abatido (Spanish), cariacontecido (Spanish), de capa caída (Spanish), modfälld (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-crestfallen-en-adj-RMTcsYE8 Disambiguation of Emotions: 91 9 Disambiguation of Sadness: 93 7 Categories (other): English adjectives ending in -en, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English adjectives ending in -en: 69 31 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 84 16 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 83 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of 'depressed': 76 24 Disambiguation of 'sad because of a recent disappointment': 98 2 Disambiguation of 'depressed': 69 31 Disambiguation of 'sad because of a recent disappointment': 98 2
  2. (obsolete, of a horse) Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-crestfallen-en-adj-XpYxgoIn
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: crest-fall, crestfallenly, crestfallenness
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          "ref": "1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter VI, in A Study in Scarlet. A Detective Story, 3rd edition, London, New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., […], published 1892, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Gregson looked quite crestfallen.",
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          "text": "'He did it awfully well,' said the crestfallen Rat.",
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          "text": "Brother Gáeth was a tall man with almost ugly features and a permanently crestfallen expression that made the elderly abbot immediately feel guilty that he had spoken so roughly.",
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          "ref": "2015, Alda de Jesus Oliveira, The PONTES Approach to Music Education: Learning to Reach Out:",
          "text": "Diniz was a dark man who seemed closed in on himself, always crestfallen, walking along the walls and corners, answering questions with monosyllables and whispered sounds.",
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          "word": "垂头丧气"
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          "sense": "depressed",
          "word": "нераспо́ложен"
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          "sense": "depressed",
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    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
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    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
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          "ref": "1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Tom's cheeks burned. He gathered himself up and sneaked off, crushed and crestfallen.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter VI, in A Study in Scarlet. A Detective Story, 3rd edition, London, New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., […], published 1892, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Gregson looked quite crestfallen.",
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          "ref": "1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 12, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 6, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:",
          "text": "'He did it awfully well,' said the crestfallen Rat.",
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          "ref": "1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, chapter 15, in Autobiography of a Yogi:",
          "text": "I rushed there; no lamp! Crestfallen, I returned to my guru.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Roger Lewis, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, page 743:",
          "text": "And we can sense that, though permanently crestfallen, there is something in his nature, which makes him accept solitude, that is rather fearless.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Pseudonymous Bosch, chapter 3, in This Isn't What It Looks Like:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Peter Tremayne, The Chalice of Blood: A Mystery of Ancient Ireland, page 9:",
          "text": "Brother Gáeth was a tall man with almost ugly features and a permanently crestfallen expression that made the elderly abbot immediately feel guilty that he had spoken so roughly.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Alda de Jesus Oliveira, The PONTES Approach to Music Education: Learning to Reach Out:",
          "text": "Diniz was a dark man who seemed closed in on himself, always crestfallen, walking along the walls and corners, answering questions with monosyllables and whispered sounds.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, James Bowring, Down in the Country: A Carlow Valley Mystery:",
          "text": "He had short, dark hair, liberally flecked with silver-grey strands, heavily lidded brown eyes and a mouth that turned down at the edges, giving him a permanently crestfallen expression.",
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      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "disappointed"
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      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
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      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "blue"
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    {
      "sense": "depressed",
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      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "despondent"
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    {
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "depressed"
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    {
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "downcast"
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    {
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "down in the dumps"
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      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "sorrowful"
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      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "клюмнал"
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      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "унил"
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      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "喪氣"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "sàngqì",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "丧气"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "氣餒"
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      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "垂頭喪氣"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chuítóusàngqì",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "垂头丧气"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "sklíčený"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "skleslý"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "beteuterd"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "allapäin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "pää painuksissa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "déçu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "abattu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "enttäuscht"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "geknickt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "csalódott"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "elszontyolodott"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "letört"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "orrát lógatva"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "lógó orral"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "a testa bassa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "pótisnat",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "по́тиснат"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "tapou"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "para"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "parakore"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "frasobliwy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "strapiony"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "zafrasowany"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "zmartwiony"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "cabisbaixo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "unýlyj",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "уны́лый"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podávlennyj",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "пода́вленный"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "alicaído"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "abatido"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "cariacontecido"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "de capa caída"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "sad because of a recent disappointment",
      "word": "modfälld"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "padnal duhom",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "паднал духом"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "沮喪"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jǔsàng",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "沮丧"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "gedeprimeerd"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "teneergeslagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "allapäin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "masentunut"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "niedergeschlagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "csüggedt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "levert"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "neraspóložen",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "нераспо́ложен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "udručónnyj",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "удручённый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "unýlyj",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "уны́лый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podávlennyj",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "пода́вленный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pádšij dúxom",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "па́дший ду́хом"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "upávšij dúxom",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "word": "упа́вший ду́хом"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "depressed",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "murrio"
    }
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}

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