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DISILLUSIONED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disillusioned mean?
• DISILLUSIONED (adjective)
The adjective DISILLUSIONED has 1 sense:
1. freed from illusion
Familiarity information: DISILLUSIONED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Freed from illusion
Similar:
disenchanted (freed from enchantment)
Context examples
Before the evening was half over, Jo felt so completely disillusioned, that she sat down in a corner to recover herself.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I had always conceived a burial at sea to be a very solemn and awe-inspiring event, but I was quickly disillusioned, by this burial at any rate.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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"Nice guys finish last." (American proverb)
"He who protects himself from cold also wards off heat." (Corsican proverb)