different between resentful vs crestfallen
resentful
English
Etymology
resent +? -ful
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???z?ntf?l/
Adjective
resentful (comparative more resentful, superlative most resentful)
- Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged.
- Synonyms: unforgiving, spiteful
- Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.
- Synonym: bitter
Derived terms
- resentfully
- resentfulness
Translations
References
- resentful at OneLook Dictionary Search
- resentful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- resentful in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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crestfallen
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)
- Sad because of a recent disappointment.
- Depressed.
- (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.'"
- "'...You remember the hat beside the dead man?'
- 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
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