disabused

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Thân thiện

He was disabused of the belief that all swans are white when he saw a black one.

Definition

Adjective:
- Freed from a mistaken or misguided notion: Describes a person who has been corrected or liberated from a false belief, misconception, or illusion. It implies a state of having one's eyes opened to the truth after previously holding an incorrect view.

Usage

The adjective "disabused" is typically used in a formal or literary context. It describes the resulting state of a person after the action of being disabused (the verb form). It is often followed by the preposition "of" to specify the misconception that has been corrected.
Example: "Once disabused of the idea that success comes easily, she began to work much harder."

Examples

Adjective:
- The public, now disabused of the propaganda, demanded truthful reporting.
- He was finally disabused of the notion that all his friends were trustworthy.
- A disabused investor is often a more cautious one.

Advanced Usage

"to be disabused of something": This is the most common construction, indicating the specific false idea from which someone has been freed.
- Scientists hope the public will be disabused of the fear that vaccines are unsafe.
Used in a more general sense to describe a person with a corrected, realistic worldview.
- Her disabused perspective made her a sharp and insightful critic.

Variants and Related Words

Disabuse (verb): To free someone from a misconception; to persuade someone that an idea or belief is mistaken.
- The teacher sought to disabuse her students of the myth that history is boring.
Disabusing (present participle/gerund): The act of correcting a misconception.
- His article was dedicated to disabusing common economic fallacies.

Synonyms

Enlightened: Having or showing a rational, modern, and well-informed outlook.
Undeceived: No longer deceived or misled.
Corrected: Having errors or faults put right.
Disillusioned: Disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed. (Note: "Disillusioned" often carries a negative, disappointed tone, while "disabused" is more neutral, focusing on the correction of fact.)

Antonyms

Related Phrases

To disabuse someone's mind: A slightly more formal variant of "to disabuse someone of something."
- The evidence served to disabuse the jury's mind of any presumption of innocence.
To labor under a delusion / misconception: (Idiom) To believe something that is false. This describes the state being disabused.
- He had been laboring under the delusion that his work was perfect until his manager disabused him of that idea.

He was disabused of the belief that all swans are white when he saw a black one.

Adjective

freed of a mistaken or misguided notion
- some people are still not disabused of the old idea that the universe revolves around the Earth

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