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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disenchanted
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After three divorces he must be pretty disenchanted with married life.
▪ The party's greatest problem is trying to win back the support of its own disenchanted members.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A more realistic threat could be posed by a disenchanted or jealous army officer.
▪ Also, the world becoming disenchanted, the spirits and demons expelled from the air were now taken inside.
▪ But I'd also become disenchanted with pro-lifers who seemed to be saying that they loved my unborn baby but hated me!
▪ Heads now have the task of leading tired and disenchanted teachers through the greatest innovation of all.
▪ Radical intellectuals were the most disenchanted of all.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disenchanted

Disenchant \Dis`en*chant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disenchanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disenchanting.] [Pref. dis- + enchant: cf. F. d['e]senchanter.]

  1. To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells.

    Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove.
    --Dryden.

  2. to free (a person) from fascination or delusion; to destroy the false hopes or overoptimistic expectations of (a person); to disillusion; -- used with people or events as the agent (subject); as, the candidate was disenchanted by the low turnout at the rally.

Wiktionary
disenchanted

vb. (en-past of: disenchant)

WordNet
disenchanted

adj. freed from enchantment [ant: enchanted]

Wikipedia
Disenchanted

"Disenchanted" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Michael Martin Murphey. It was released in April 1984 as the third single from the album The Heart Never Lies. The song peaked at number 12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles and at number 11 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. It was written by Murphey, Jim Ed Norman and Chick Rains.

Disenchanted (My Chemical Romance song)
  1. redirect The Black Parade

Category:My Chemical Romance songs Category:Song recordings produced by Rob Cavallo Category:Songs written by Gerard Way

Usage examples of "disenchanted".

Even if a large dose of disenchantment was called for, the Eco camps would maintain, it had gotten quite out of hand, even wreckless and vicious, and disenchanted was fast becoming disemboweled.

Had Titania's eyes been disenchanted when she was fondling the immortal Weaver, she might have perished with disgust.

These were all experiences she wanted first-hand, not sourly from a disenchanted old brain.

Johnny Greene added in private to the other Talents after they had given their testimonies to the investigating committee, "as the fact that he had finally become disenchanted with our dear Ludmilla and, in the last month or so, had begun to distance himself.

And because she curbed the loudness of Maizella's rather good basic voice, she was very welcome indeed - not just by the girl's disenchanted half-brothers and sisters, but by many of the adults who resided in the Hold.

But alternatives would take time, not to mention more experimentation on the part of both Zurg and Harman's innovative crew-more time in which the disenchanted Lord Holders could steadily withdraw their support from Landing.

The self therefore hovers above reality, disengaged, disenchanted, disembodied.

The January, 1996 episode focused on David Belfield (AKA Daoud Salahuddin), a young black man who became disenchanted with American social and economic life and was drawn to the militant Islamic movement.

All it left was the gutted body of one disenchanted, and now disemboweled, American.

Although Bush administration officials had become somewhat disenchanted with Saddam by the summer of 1990, they remained committed to a policy of constructive engagement with Iraq and didn't particularly want to hear a junior CIA analyst telling them that their policy was about to go up in smoke.

The Saudis are thoroughly disenchanted with the Iraqi opposition, particularly the U.

These were the disenchanted, the disloyal — soldiers who had been passed over for promotion or, more disturbingly, had been too impatient to work their way up the hierarchy.

He has been using foot soldiers disenchanted with our alliance with the Occupiers to house and distribute his contraband.