disenchanted

/dɪsɛnˈtʃæntɪd/

/dɪsɛnˈtʃæntɪd/

When you're disenchanted, you're disappointed or let down by something or someone you once admired. Large classes and standardized testing often leads to disenchanted teachers.

An unsatisfying final episode of a popular TV show's last season will result in disenchanted viewers, and the impression that all the candidates are basically the same means a lot of disenchanted voters. When you're enchanted by something, you're delighted by it. This comes from the Old French root enchanter, "to bewitch, charm, or cast a spell." Adding the prefix dis- gives disenchanted the opposite meaning.

Definitions of disenchanted

1. adjective

   disappointed or let down; freed from enchantment
   synonyms:

   disabused, undeceived

   freed of a mistaken or misguided notion

   disillusioned

   freed from illusion

   sophisticated

   having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire

   antonyms:

   enchanted

   influenced as by charms or incantations

   beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced

   filled with wonder and delight

   bewitched, ensorcelled

   under a spell

   fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed

   having your attention fixated as though by a spell