Crestfallen

Adjective

 * 1) Sad because of a recent disappointment.
 * 2) Depressed.

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.

Synonyms

 * : disappointed, disillusioned
 * : blue, dejected, despondent, depressed, downcast, down in the dumps, sorrowful

Derived terms

 * crest-fall
 * crestfallenly
 * crestfallenness

Thesaurus
abashed, ashamed, baffled, balked, betrayed, bilked, blasted, blighted, blushing, brooding, broody, chagrined, chapfallen, crossed, crushed, dashed, defeated, disappointed, dished, disillusioned, dissatisfied, dumpish, embarrassed, foiled, frustrated, glum, grum, hangdog, humbled, humiliated, ill done-by, ill-served, let down, long-faced, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mortified, mumpish, out of countenance, red-faced, regretful, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sorely disappointed, soured, sulky, sullen, thwarted

Etymology
From, from the appearance of a horse and its position of head on its crest (chest) after defeat in a battle

Translations

 * Bulgarian: клюмнал, унил


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: паднал духом
 * Finnish:


 * Russian: падший духом