chapfallen

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/ˈt͡ʃæpfɔːlən/

adjective

Crestfallen, dejected.

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chopfallenatrabiliaryatrabiliousblithelessdispiritedbluebummed outcheerless
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Meanings

adjectivechapfallen (comparative more chapfallen, superlative most chapfallen)

comparative more chapfallen · superlative most chapfallen

  1. Crestfallen, dejected.

    I can't describe to you how chapfallen and angry my cousin looked.

    1865, Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas
    1 more example

    Alas poore Yoricke, […] where be your gibes now? your gamboles? your ſongs? your flaſhes of merriment, that were wont to ſet the table on a roare, not one now to mocke your owne grinning, quite chopfalne.

    c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]

    Synonyms: chopfallen, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, cheerless

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveCrestfallen, dejected.

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chopfallenatrabiliaryatrabiliousblithelessdispiritedbluebummed outcheerlesschopfallencrestfallencut updampdejecteddepresseddespondentdisgruntleddisconsolatedishearteneddismal

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivebrought low in spirit

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chopfallencrestfallendeflateddejected
Also see
blithelessbluebummed outcheerlesschopfallencrestfallencut updeflateddejecteddepresseddesolatedespondentdisconsolatedishearteneddismaldolesomedowndowncastdownhearteddown in the dumpsdown in the mouthdownsomedullelegiacforlorngrief-strickenheartsickheartsoreheavy-heartedinconsolablejawfallenlachrymoselamentfullowlow-spiritedlumpishmelancholicmelancholymiserablemoodymournfulruthfulsadsaturnineshatteredsombresorrowfulsorrow-riddensorrowsomesorrytearfulthreneticthreneticaltristetristfulunhappywistfulwoewoebegonewoeful

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From chap + fallen; see chap (“jaw”).

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chapfallen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chapfallen

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“chapfallen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chapfallen. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chapfallen,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chapfallen.

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