defeated

  • (a) beaten or overcome; not victorious
    • the defeated enemy
  • (s) disappointingly unsuccessful
    • disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions
    • their foiled attempt to capture Calais
    • many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers
    • his best efforts were thwarted
    disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted,

Nouns

  • (n) people who are defeated
    • the Romans had no pity for the defeated
    discomfited,

Synonyms

discomfited disappointed foiled frustrated thwarted

Antonyms

undefeated

See also

unsuccessful

Words of close approximity