verb (used with object)
- to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
noun
- a state of disappointment or disillusionment
verb
- (tr; when passive, foll by with or by) to make disappointed or disillusionedshe is disenchanted with the marriage
1580s, from Middle French desenchanter (13c.), from des- (see dis-) + enchanter “to enchant” (see enchant). Related: Disenchanted; disenchanting; disenchantment. Carlyle coined disenchantress (1831).