DEFEATED
Dictionary entry overview: What does defeated mean?
• DEFEATED (noun)
The noun DEFEATED has 1 sense:
1. people who are defeated
Familiarity information: DEFEATED used as a noun is very rare.
• DEFEATED (adjective)
The adjective DEFEATED has 2 senses:
1. beaten or overcome; not victorious
2. disappointingly unsuccessful
Familiarity information: DEFEATED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DEFEATED (noun)
Meaning:
People who are defeated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
defeated; discomfited
Context example:
the Romans had no pity for the defeated
Hypernyms ("defeated" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
• DEFEATED (adjective)
Meaning:
Beaten or overcome; not victorious
Context example:
the defeated enemy
Similar:
licked (having been got the better of)
subjugated (reduced to submission)
Also:
unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)
Antonym:
undefeated (victorious)
Meaning:
Disappointingly unsuccessful
Synonyms:
disappointed; discomfited; foiled; frustrated; thwarted; defeated
Context examples:
disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions / their foiled attempt to capture Calais / many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers / his best efforts were thwarted
Similar:
unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)
