Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being in low spirits; dejected and disheartened.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the lower chap or jaw depressed; hence, dejected; dispirited; silenced; chagrined.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See
chopfallen .
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- adjective
crestfallen ,dejected
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective brought low in spirit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Regulators looked very tame and "chapfallen" for a day or two; and
In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. Oliver Optic 1859
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To wit: "And yet," says he, all chapfallen, "I fear me he will find occasion to clatter at my lady's ear, and mow and girn for his cracked pate to move her pity - and seest thou, father, it will look ill for me, a tenant oppressed crying Justice! and I can do nowt for him, wanting power at hand, and but the bailiff."
Book 9: The Candlemass Road eddvick 2008
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The priest seemed somewhat chapfallen at her answer.
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We departed: poor Sam perfectly silent and chapfallen; and I meditating on the wisdom of the half-pay philosopher, and wondering what means he would employ to rescue Pogson from his fate.
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Mr Bloom, chapfallen, drew behind a few paces so as not to overhear.
Ulysses 2003
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Don Quixote was getting up to chastise him, but he took to his heels at such a pace that no one attempted to follow him; and mightily chapfallen was Don Quixote at Andres 'story, and the others had to take great care to restrain their laughter so as not to put him entirely out of countenance.
Don Quixote 2002
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Something, however, I fear me, must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great interval, with an air quite desolate and chapfallen. —
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As for the young rufflers and simple tradesmen who had come out with visions of rattling their winnings on the way home to their wives, they were herded into the gatehouse to be chided, warned, and sent home chapfallen, with very little in their pockets.
The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984
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"Cells! quo 'he," looking chapfallen up the stairway, as if for something there behind his escaped prisoner.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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County told each other in chapfallen appreciation that she was about as level-headed as they make them.
The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan
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