Synonyms for chagrin
- noun
- verb
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Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Mortification — A distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, a want of appreciation, mistakes, etc.; vexation or…
mortification, displeasure, embarrassment, disappointment, vexation, confusion, humiliation, disquiet, peevishness, abashment, fretfulness
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Verb
Definitions
- n. 1
A distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, a want of appreciation, mistakes, etc.; vexation or mortification.
- v. 1
To bother or vex; to mortify.
Related words
- Word family
- chagrined
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Chagrin unites disappointment with some degree of humiliation. A rainy day may bring disappointment; needless failure in some enterprise brings chagrin.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- disappointment The new teacher was a disappointment to the class.
- embarrassment Laïcité is an embarrassment to the secular world.
- displeasure Ziri immediately started speaking in displeasure.
- mortification Anne's mortification was as evident as Gilbert's satisfaction.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| chagrin | rising | |
| disappointment | rising | |
| embarrassment | rising | |
| displeasure | rising | |
| mortification | rising | |
| shagreen | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- shame1, abase, abash2
- 6 letters
- humble2
- 7 letters
- confuse2, mortify3
- 8 letters
- confound2, disquiet3, vexation, shagreen
- 9 letters
- confusion3, embarrass3, humiliate4, discomfit, abashment
- 10 letters
- disconcert3, discompose
- 11 letters
- humiliation5, displeasure3, peevishness, fretfulness
- 13 letters
- embarrassment4, mortification4
- 14 letters
- disappointment4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (abash2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- chagrin
- Italiano
- dispiacere
- Español
- pena
- Deutsch
- Kummer
- Català
- pena