Chagrin /(?)/

Cha·grin

Chagrin

n.
  1. Vexation; mortification.
    I must own that I felt rather vexation and chagrin than hope and satisfaction.
    — Richard Porson.
    Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin.
Syn. -- Vexation; mortification; peevishness; fretfulness; disgust; disquiet.

Chagrin, Vexation, Mortification. These words agree in the general sense of pain produced by untoward circumstances. Vexation is a feeling of disquietude or irritating uneasiness from numerous causes, such as losses, disappointments, etc. Mortification is a stronger word, and denotes that keen sense of pain which results from wounded pride or humiliating occurrences. Chagrin is literally the cutting pain produced by the friction of Shagreen leather; in its figurative sense, it varies in meaning, denoting in its lower degrees simply a state of vexation, and its higher degrees the keenest sense of mortification.

Chagrin

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Chagrined; p. pr. & vb. n. Chargrining

  1. To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined.

Chagrin

v. i.
  1. To be vexed or annoyed.

Chagrin

a.
  1. Chagrined.