DISENCHANTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disenchanted mean? 

• DISENCHANTED (adjective)
  The adjective DISENCHANTED has 1 sense:

1. freed from enchantment

  Familiarity information: DISENCHANTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISENCHANTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Freed from enchantment

Similar:

disabused; undeceived (freed of a mistaken or misguided notion)

disillusioned (freed from illusion)

Also:

sophisticated (having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire)

Antonym:

enchanted (influenced as by charms or incantations)

 Context examples 

The next morning he came to the eldest and took him to a marble table, where there were three tablets, containing an account of the means by which the castle might be disenchanted.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At last he dreamt one night that he found a beautiful purple flower, and that in the middle of it lay a costly pearl; and he dreamt that he plucked the flower, and went with it in his hand into the castle, and that everything he touched with it was disenchanted, and that there he found his Jorinda again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)