disillusioned

adjective

dis·​il·​lu·​sion·​ed ˌdis-ə-ˈlü-zhənd 

: having lost faith or trust in something formerly regarded as good or valuable

becoming more and more disillusioned with politics

Overworked, tired, disillusioned, with a shaky marriage, the district attorney finally gets a case that he really wants to prosecute.

—The New York Times Book Review

The camps grew restive and disillusioned, but refused to give up.

—Nora Levin

The disillusioned children of troubled marriages suffer from their parents' transgressions long into adulthood.

—Marianne Gingher

Examples of disillusioned in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And even the most disillusioned, above-it-all people feel different when the jokes are on them. —Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Money, 6 June 2026

In a world of jaded billionaires, psychiatrist-gurus, bio-hacked tech bros, AI labs, and disillusioned teens being optimized in elite private schools, an audacious data-mining CEO (Magnussen) strives to turn insight and influence into profit and power. —Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 June 2026

The disillusioned 32% aren’t angry in the abstract. —Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 June 2026

And into that post-Challenger disillusioned summer of 1986, Hollywood brought us SpaceCamp. —Eric Berger & Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 31 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1858, in the meaning defined above