Disillusion Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭsĭ-lo͝ozhən
Free from enchantment
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. disenchant
  2. disenthrall
  3. shatter one's illusions
  4. free from illusion
  5. disabuse
  6. undeceive
  7. embitter
  8. open one's eyes
  9. let down easy
  10. pull the ground from under
  11. burst the bubble
  12. break the spell
  13. knock the props from under
  14. bring down to earth
  15. bring down
  16. let the air out of
  17. send one's air castles tumbling
  18. show the feet of clay
Antonyms:
  1. enchant
Freeing from false belief or illusions
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. disenchantment
  2. disillusionment
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Words Related to Disillusion

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Disillusion Sentence Examples

  • But however indubitable that conclusion and the officer's conviction based upon it, Pierre felt it necessary to disillusion him.

  • In order to disillusion anyone who may think that my position was a sinecure, I shall now digress.

  • The result was that, despite widespread popular disillusion with New Labor this June, we failed to move public opinion our way.

  • The mutual ardour;gradually cooled; motives of prudence and decorum urged the discontinuance of the connexion; and disillusion changed insensibly to disgust.

  • No event in the history of England had been attended with more lively and general rejoicing than Charles's restoration, and none was destined to cause greater subsequent disappointment and disillusion.

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