different between crestfallen vs chagrined

English

Etymology

From crest +? fallen, from the appearance of a horse with its crest (head) on its chest after defeat in a battle

Pronunciation

• (UK): IPA^(key): /?k??stf??l?n/
• (US): IPA^(key): /?k??stf?l?n/
• (cot-caught merger, Inland Northern American): IPA^(key): /?k??stf?l?n/

Adjective

crestfallen (comparative more crestfallen, superlative most crestfallen)

1. Sad because of a recent disappointment.
2. Depressed.
3. (obsolete, of a horse) Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side.

Quotations

• 1876 — Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ch. XII

  Tom's cheeks burned. He gathered himself up and sneaked off, crushed and crestfallen.

• 1887 — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, ch. VI

  "'...You remember the hat beside the dead man?'
  'Yes,' said Holmes; 'by John Underwood and Sons, 129, Camberwell Road.'
  Gregson looked quite crestfallen.
  'I had no idea that you noticed that,'he said. "Have you been there?'
  'No.'"

• 1897 — H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, ch. 12

  Hall tried to convey everything by grimaces and dumb show, but Mrs. Hall was obdurate. She raised her voice. So Hall and Henfrey, rather crestfallen, tiptoed back to the bar, gesticulating to explain to her.

• 1908 — Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, ch. 6

  'He did it awfully well,' said the crestfallen Rat.

• 1946 — Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, ch. 15

  I rushed there; no lamp! Crestfallen, I returned to my guru.

• 2010 — Pseudonymous Bosch, This Isn't What It Looks Like, ch. -3

  Yes, unfortunately, she'd heard him correctly. She was crestfallen. Here she'd come so far to ask him the question, and he didn't know the answer.

Synonyms

• (sad because of a recent disappointment): disappointed, disillusioned
• (depressed): blue, dejected, despondent, depressed, downcast, down in the dumps, sorrowful

Derived terms

• crest-fall
• crestfallenly
• crestfallenness

Translations

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.