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JILTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jilted mean?
• JILTED (adjective)
The adjective JILTED has 1 sense:
1. rebuffed (by a lover) without warning
Familiarity information: JILTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rebuffed (by a lover) without warning
Synonyms:
Context example:
jilted at the altar
Similar:
unloved (not loved)
Context examples
I have not so much to say for my friend Flora, who jilted a very nice young man in the Blues for the sake of that horrid Lord Stornaway, who has about as much sense, Fanny, as Mr. Rushworth, but much worse-looking, and with a blackguard character.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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