Crestfallen: Definition and part of speech

Crestfallen

  1. a. Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; — said of a horse.
  2. a. With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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