Crossword clues for discomfited
discomfited
The Collaborative International Dictionary
discomfited \discomfited\ n. pl. people who are defeated.
Syn: defeated.
discomfited \discomfited\ discomfitted \discomfitted\adj.
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thwarted; -- used especially of feelings of defeat and discouragement.
Syn: baffled, balked, discouraged, frustrated, disconcerted.
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same as discombobulated.
Syn: discombobulated.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: discomfit)
WordNet
adj. disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted" [syn: defeated, disappointed, foiled, frustrated, thwarted]
caused to feel self-conscious and uncomfortable; "was discomfited by the personal questions"; "the child felt embarrassed by the attention of the adults" [syn: embarrassed]
n. people who are defeated; "the Romans had no pity for the defeated" [syn: defeated]
Usage examples of "discomfited".
For when I sought worldly adventures and worldly desires, I ever achieved them, and had the better in every place, and never was I discomfited in any quarrel, were it right or wrong.
Speaking half to the First, half to the discomfited sea and the acute sky, she said, "The only thing Daphin did to me was answer questions.
As he wiped a discomfited hand across his forehead, he looked like a man for whom a lifetime of ambition had begun to crumble.
The Kushan seemed slightly discomfited by the fact that he had no stirrups.
If we are to discuss"—still the word discomfited him—"we must meet on equal terms.
When he resumed, his voice held a note of coercion, as if he were forcing himself to make assertions which discomfited him.
This formidable host, the like of which is not to be found in eastern history, and has scarcely been imagined in eastern romance, ^49 was discomfited in a great battle, in which the Roman Alexander proved himself an intrepid soldier and a skilful general.
They fled in real or affected disorder, engaged the Palmyrenians in a laborious pursuit, harassed them by a desultory combat, and at length discomfited this impenetrable but unwieldy body of cavalry.
This eastern Sorbonne had discomfited the Imperial theologians on the great question of image worship.
In a third engagement, his intrepid companions discomfited the host of sixty thousand Saracens, and left the Greeks no more than the labor of the pursuit: a splendid victory.
His splendid achievements, the bashaws whom he encountered, the armies that he discomfited, and the three thousand Turks who were slain by his single hand, must be weighed in the scales of suspicious criticism.
The Romans were discomfited with shame and slaughter: but the English prelate must have indulged the vanity of a pilgrim, if he multiplied their numbers to one hundred, and their loss in the field to thirty, thousand men.