All disillusionment synonyms

noun disillusionment

• displeasure — dissatisfaction, disapproval, or annoyance.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• blow — When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves.
• discontent — not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
• regret — to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment, etc.): He no sooner spoke than he regretted it.
• chagrin — Chagrin is a feeling of disappointment, upset, or annoyance, perhaps because of your own failure.
• setback — Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
• dissatisfaction — the state or attitude of not being satisfied; discontent; displeasure.
• letdown — a decrease in volume, force, energy, etc.: a letdown in sales; a general letdown of social barriers.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• frustration — act of frustrating; state of being frustrated: the frustration of the president's efforts.
• defeat — If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
• adversity — an unfortunate event or incident
• disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
• anxiety — Anxiety is a feeling of nervousness or worry.
• consternation — Consternation is a feeling of anxiety or fear.
• fright — sudden and extreme fear; a sudden terror.
• apprehension — Apprehension is a feeling of fear that something bad may happen.
• alarm — Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
• trepidation — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
• dread — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
• terror — intense, sharp, overmastering fear: to be frantic with terror.
• panic — Also called panic grass. any grass of the genus Panicum, many species of which bear edible grain.
• horror — an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.
• comedown — If you say that something is a comedown, you think that it is not as good as something else that you have just done or had.
• anticlimax — You can describe something as an anticlimax if it disappoints you because it happens after something that was very exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected.
• disillusion — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• despondency — Despondency is a strong feeling of unhappiness caused by difficulties which you feel you cannot overcome.
• disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
• discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
• mortification — a feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect.
• bafflement — Bafflement is the state of being baffled.
• dumps — an accumulation of discarded garbage, refuse, etc.
• blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness
• agitation — If someone is in a state of agitation, they are very worried or upset, and show this in their behaviour, movements, or voice.
• upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
• hassle — a disorderly dispute.
• bummer — If you say that something is a bummer, you mean that it is unpleasant or annoying.
• fear — a river in SE North Carolina. 202 miles (325 km) long.
• funk — Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1884–1967, U.S. biochemist, born in Poland: discovered thiamine, the first vitamin isolated.
• downer — Informal. a depressant or sedative drug, especially a barbiturate. a depressing experience, person, or situation.
• dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
• balk — If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
• washout — a washing out of earth, gravel, etc., by water, as from an embankment or a roadway by heavy rain or by a flash flood.
• success — the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the accomplishment of one's goals.
• blue funk — a state of great terror or loss of nerve
• cold feet — loss or lack of courage or confidence
• bitter pill — a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept (often in the expression a bitter pill to swallow): Being passed over for promotion was a bitter pill to swallow.
• disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.