deflated

Thân thiện

The team felt deflated after the final whistle.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having lost confidence, optimism, or enthusiasm; feeling dispirited or let down. This describes a state of low spirits, often following disappointment, failure, or a loss of hope.
   • Reduced in size, volume, or pressure by having air or gas removed. This is the literal, physical sense, most commonly applied to objects like tires or balloons.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (Emotional State):
  • After losing the championship game, the team felt utterly deflated.
  • Her deflated expression showed how much the criticism had hurt her.
• Adjective (Physical State):
  • We couldn't ride the bikes because the tires were deflated.
  • A deflated balloon lay on the floor after the party.

Advanced Usage

• "to feel deflated": to experience a strong sense of disappointment and loss of energy or enthusiasm.
  • He felt deflated after his proposal was rejected by the committee.
• "to leave someone deflated": to cause someone to lose their spirit or confidence.
  • The harsh review of her performance left her completely deflated.

Variants and Related Words

• Deflate (verb): To let air or gas out of something; or to make someone feel less important or confident.
  • verb (physical): He had to deflate the air mattress before packing it.
  • verb (emotional): One negative comment shouldn't deflate your excitement.
• Deflation (noun): The action or process of deflating; in economics, a general decline in prices.
  • The deflation of the raft took several minutes.
  • The country's economy entered a period of deflation.

Synonyms

• Dispirited: Having lost enthusiasm and hope; dejected.
• Crestfallen: Sad and disappointed.
• Dismayed: Struck with sudden disappointment or distress.
• Flat: Lacking interest or emotion; dull. (e.g., )

Related Phrasal Verbs

• (To) deflate someone's ego: To make someone less arrogant or self-important.
  • Failing the simple test really deflated his ego.
• (To) deflate the tension: To reduce the intensity of a stressful or anxious situation.
  • Her joke helped to deflate the tension in the room.

Related Idioms

• Like a deflated balloon: Used to describe someone who has suddenly lost all their energy, excitement, or confidence.
  • After hearing the bad news, he sat there like a deflated balloon.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. brought low in spirit
   • left us fatigued and deflated spiritually

Từ đồng nghĩa

• chapfallen
• chopfallen
• crestfallen