Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Disappointingly unsuccessful; thwarted or frustrated: Describes a state of being defeated, frustrated, or having one's plans or efforts fail.
2. Noun:
   • People who are defeated: Refers collectively to those who have been overcome or vanquished.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The discomfited candidate left the stage after losing the election.
  • She felt discomfited by the rejection of her proposal.
• Noun:
  • The general showed no mercy to the discomfited.
  • History is often written by the victors, not the discomfited.

Advanced Usage

• "To be/feel discomfited": To experience a feeling of embarrassment, frustration, or defeat.
  • He was visibly discomfited by the unexpected question during the interview.
• Used in formal or literary contexts to describe a state of emotional or situational defeat beyond mere disappointment.

Variants and Related Words

• Discomfit (verb): To defeat, frustrate, or make someone feel uneasy or embarrassed.
  • The lawyer's sharp questioning discomfited the witness.
• Discomfiture (noun): A feeling of embarrassment, frustration, or defeat.
  • She tried to hide her discomfiture after the public mistake.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Defeated, thwarted, frustrated, foiled, unsuccessful, vanquished.
• Noun: The defeated, the vanquished, the losers.

Related Phrases

• "To put to discomfiture": (Archaic/Literary) To utterly defeat or rout.
  • The army was put to discomfiture in the final battle.

Adjective

1. disappointingly unsuccessful
   • disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions
   • their foiled attempt to capture Calais
   • many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers
   • his best efforts were thwarted

Noun

1. people who are defeated
   • the Romans had no pity for the defeated