disenchanting

comparative more disenchanting · superlative most disenchanting

1. Causing one to become disenchanted; disillusioning; making something unattractive.

   What could be more disenchanting than stores built to look like warehouses—comparatively cold, spare, and inelegant?

   2005, George Ritzer, Enchanting a Disenchanted World, page 90

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   The more the player knows that as they plug in and log on they are being played on by a vast technomarketing apparatus, the more disenchanting the virtual experience risks becoming.

   2003, Stephen Kline, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig De Peuter, Digital Play, page 285

   There is nothing more disenchanting than coming away from a class with the residue from the underside of someone's chair all over your favourite sweatshirt.

   2022, Adam Benjamin, Making an Entrance

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of disenchant