different between chagrined vs nonplussed

English

Verb

chagrined

1. simple past tense and past participle of chagrin

Adjective

chagrined (comparative more chagrined, superlative most chagrined)

1. Feeling chagrin (at something); vexed; fretful.[First attested in the early 18^th century, replacing the adjective chagrin.]
   • 1769, Arthur Murphy, Genuine Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Miss Ann Elliot, London: J. Fell & J. Roson, p. 92,^[1]

     […] she had nothing but paste ornaments about her; and therefore, observing her own diamonds on a celebrated courtezan, was so excessively, and indeed justly chagrined, that she left the play-house before the representation was concluded.

   • 1835, Edward Allan Poe, “Hans Phaall—A Tale” in Southern Literary Messenger, June, 1835, Volume I, No. 10, p. 569,^[2]

     […] I felt in both my breeches pockets, and missing therefrom a set of tablets and a tooth-pick case, I endeavored to account for their disappearance, and, not being able to do so, felt inexpressibly chagrined.

   • 1921, Harold Hunter Armstrong as Henry G. Aikman, Zell, London: Jonathan Cape, Chapter Two, p. 115,^[3]

     “She’ll pay it,” Mr. O’Dell told Mr. Jenks with the chagrined expression of a restrained bulldog.

   • 2003, Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, New York: Scribner, 2004, Part Two, p. 129,^[4]

     He searched his pockets for money, feeling a little foolish, a little chagrined, having made and lost sums that could colonize a planet, but the woman was moving up the street on shoes with flapping soles and there were no bills or coins in any case to find inside his pants, or documents of any kind.

English

Etymology

From an earlier verb form of nonplus, from Latin n?n pl?s (“no more, no further”), early 1600s. The etymological sense is similar to being left speechless as a result of confusion: the person can say or do "no more".

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n?n?pl?st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /n?n?pl?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Adjective

nonplussed (comparative more nonplussed, superlative most nonplussed)

1. Bewildered; unsure how to respond or act. [from 17th c.]
   • 1724, Daniel Defoe, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress:

     Note, the honest Quaker was nonplussed, and greatly surprised at that question.

   • 2000, Marcia Miller & Martin Lee, Vocabulary, Word of the Day

     "Dad was so nonplussed by the new VCR that he gave up and asked Mom to set it for him".

2. (proscribed, US, informal) Unfazed, unaffected, or unimpressed. [from 20th c.]

Usage notes

In recent North American English nonplussed has acquired the alternative meaning of "unimpressed". In 1999, this was considered a neologism, ostensibly from "not plussed", although "plussed" is itself a nonstandard word, seemingly a back-formation from nonplussed. The "unimpressed" meaning is proscribed as nonstandard by Ask Oxford.

Synonyms

• (bewildered): perplexed, vexed, thwarted, frustrated, foiled, confounded

Translations

Verb

nonplussed

1. simple past tense and past participle of nonplus

See also

• plussed (“not nonplussed”)

References