Chagrin

[Cha*grinĀ·]

Chagrin is a noun that represents an emotion or feeling and it's an uncomfortable one. If you feel chagrin, it means that you are embarrassed or distressed as a result of a failure.

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Vexation; mortification.

Noun
strong feelings of embarrassment

Verb
cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"


n.
Vexation; mortification.

n.
To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined.

v. i.
To be vexed or annoyed.

a.
Chagrined.


Chagrin

Cha*grin" , n. [F., fr. chagrin shagreen, a particular kind of rough and grained leather; also a rough fishskin used for graters and files; hence (Fig.), a gnawing, corroding grief. See Shagreen.] Vexation; mortification.
I must own that I felt rather vexation and chagrin than hope and satisfaction.
Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin.
Syn. -- Vexation; mortification; peevishness; fretfulness; disgust; disquiet. Chagrin, Vexation, Mortification. These words agree in the general sense of pain produced by untoward circumstances. Vexation is a feeling of disquietude or irritating uneasiness from numerous causes, such as losses, disappointments, etc. Mortification is a stronger word, and denotes that keen sense of pain which results fron wounded pride or humiliating occurrences. Chagrin is literally the cutting pain produced by the friction of Shagreen leather; in its figurative sense, it varies in meaning, denoting in its lower degrees simply a state of vexation, and its higher degrees the keenest sense of mortification. "Vexation arises chiefly fron our wishes and views being crossed: mortification, from our self-importance being hurt; chagrin, from a mixture of the two."

Chagrin

Cha*grin", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chagrined ; p. pr. & vb. n. Chargrining.] [Cf. F. chagriner See Chagrin, n.] To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined.

Chagrin

Cha*grin", v. i. To be vexed or annoyed. Fielding.

Chagrin

Cha*grin", a. Chagrined. Dryden.

Vexation; mortification.

To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined.

To be vexed or annoyed.

Chagrined.

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