DEFEATED

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 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)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Disappointingly unsuccessful

Synonyms:

defeated; disappointed; discomfited; foiled; frustrated; thwarted

Context example:

his best efforts were thwarted

Similar:

unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)

 Context examples 

Though he suffered most of the damage and was always defeated, his spirit remained unsubdued.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“I have kept your name and reputation for you, and your peace and quiet, and your house and home too,” said Uriah, with a sulky, hurried, defeated air of compromise.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The motivational and/or affective state of annoyance resulting from being blocked, thwarted, disappointed or defeated.

(Frustration, NCI Thesaurus)

He could not understand, and time and again, in despair, defeated and depressed, he returned to his article.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One was the great fire on shore, by which the defeated pirates lay carousing in the swamp.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

For he argued thus: that the use of speech was to make us understand one another, and to receive information of facts; now, if any one said the thing which was not, these ends were defeated, because I cannot properly be said to understand him; and I am so far from receiving information, that he leaves me worse than in ignorance; for I am led to believe a thing black, when it is white, and short, when it is long.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I was happier than ever when the party broke up, and the other people, defeated Red Whisker and all, went their several ways, and we went ours through the still evening and the dying light, with sweet scents rising up around us.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)