disenchanting
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7.5
- adjective
- /ˌdɪsɪnˈtʃæntɪŋ/
- The magician's final trick was so clever that it was almost disenchanting when the audience realized it was just an illusion.
Examples
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The documentary revealed the harsh realities of the industry, leaving many viewers feeling disenchanting about the glamorous images they had seen before.
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Near the poem's close, this same disenchanting pattern of promise and disappointment appears again:
Fiction book (1995) -
Its disenchanting effects are patent.
Academic text (1995) -
So it when you start to see things like that, it makes, I find it disenchanting because it reminds me how fickle crowd mentality is.
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Once I learned the truth about the corporate policies, I found the whole experience disenchanting instead of exciting.
Synonyms
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6.4
To make someone realize that something they believed is not true
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6.7
Making someone see that something is not as good as it seemed
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7.1
Make someone stop believing an idea that is not true or realistic
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9.9
Make someone stop believing something false
Antonyms
How Disenchanting
Surface Forms
Morphology
disenchanting = disenchant (semi-transparent) = dis + enchant + ing
The adjective is a regular participial formation from the verb 'disenchant', meaning 'causing disenchantment'.
Etymology
Disenchanting breaks into dis- meaning 'not' and enchant meaning 'to put under a spell', and the chant part means 'to sing', like the words used in old magic. So, something disenchanting takes away the 'magic' or a false idea and makes you feel disappointed or more realistic.