disabused
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
- Deluded: Believing something that is not true.
- Misled: Led to believe something that is not true.
- Deceived: Persuaded to believe something that is not true.
- Misinformed: Given wrong or inaccurate information.
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.
Adjective
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freed of a mistaken or misguided notion
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some people are still not disabused of the old idea that the universe revolves around the Earth
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