defeated
Definition
Adjective:
- Disappointingly unsuccessful: Having failed to achieve a desired goal or outcome, often accompanied by feelings of disappointment or frustration.
- Beaten or overcome; not victorious: Having been bested in a contest, battle, or struggle.
Noun:
- People who are defeated: A collective term for those who have been overcome or beaten in a conflict or competition.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The defeated candidate gave a gracious concession speech. (The unsuccessful candidate gave a gracious concession speech.)
- After a long battle, the defeated army surrendered. (After a long battle, the overcome army surrendered.)
- Noun:
- The victors showed mercy to the defeated. (The victors showed mercy to those who were beaten.)
Advanced Usage
- "to feel defeated": to experience a strong sense of failure or discouragement.
- After the third rejection, she felt utterly defeated.
- "a defeated look/expression": a facial expression showing loss, resignation, or lack of hope.
- He walked away with a defeated look on his face.
Variants and Related Words
- Defeat (verb/noun): To overcome in a contest; an instance of being overcome.
- They hoped to defeat their rivals.
- Defeatest (adjective, rare): Most defeated. Often used in a figurative sense.
- His defeatest attitude prevented him from trying again.
Synonyms
- Adjective: Beaten, overcome, unsuccessful, thwarted, foiled, vanquished, conquered.
- Noun: The vanquished, the conquered, the losers.
Antonyms
- Adjective: Victorious, successful, triumphant, winning.
- Noun: The victors, the winners, the conquerors.
Related Phrases
- To admit defeat: To acknowledge that one has been beaten or has failed.
- He refused to admit defeat.
- To snatch defeat from the jaws of victory: To fail at the very moment success seemed certain (idiomatic).
- By fumbling the final pass, they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Adjective
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disappointingly unsuccessful
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disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions
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their foiled attempt to capture Calais
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many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers
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his best efforts were thwarted
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beaten or overcome; not victorious
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the defeated enemy
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Noun
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people who are defeated
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the Romans had no pity for the defeated
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