CHAGRINING Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

chagrining

verb

present participle of chagrin

as in bumming (out)

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as in disconcerting

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Verb

Thieves have tried to break into Taylor Minatogawa’s business five times in the last two months, distressing him so much he’s spent at least a dozen nights inside his shop keeping guard.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
Its mid-rise Harlow jeans are composed of a cotton and elastane blend, with a powder-blue hue and strategic hints of distressing down the leg.

— Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025

Definition of distressing

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One less gory but still disconcerting video shown in court was the bodycam footage from the night in February 2024 when members of the LA County Sheriff’s Department paid a visit to Burke’s Hollywood Hills home.

— Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 22 July 2026
This imbalance is perhaps not expressly disconcerting much of the time.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026

Definition of disconcerting

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The Royal Shakespeare Company production was set to launch previews Monday, July 20 but all four performances this week were canceled, disappointing a number of fans who traveled from afar, including overseas.

— K.J. Yossman, Variety, 24 July 2026
Shares of the electric vehicle maker plunged 15% on Thursday after disappointing quarterly earnings.

— Sean Conlon,Joseph Wilkins,Justina Lee,Lee Ying Shan,Fred Imbert, CNBC, 23 July 2026

Definition of disappointing

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The Iranians are now setting the terms of this conflict and are routinely humiliating the American president.

— Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Instead of demanding personal fealty or humiliating them to assert personal dominance, Lincoln absorbed their egos and occasional slights, elevating their talents and turning his fiercest political adversaries into his most devoted champions.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 24 June 2026

Definition of humiliating

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But while Moore displays a sexy rapport with friendly Darla (Paris Jackson), RZA the screenwriter keeps letting down RZA the director by making his characters disappointingly cartoonish.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
In the video, Coleman — who shares mostly running content on the platform — included before-and-after clips of his hair, first letting down his shoulder-length tresses from an updo to showcase its length before cutting to post-trim footage.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026

Definition of letting down

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Just last year, the Trust for Public Land scored the city way down at 90th out of 100 cities, the kind of mortifying ranking usually occupied in other categories by Mississippi (sorry, Mississippi).

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
Baby Reindeer was hardly a laugh riot, but mortifying humor is still humor and, with episodic running times in the 30-minute range, the show had a charging, unpredictable momentum.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026

Definition of mortifying

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Chelsea Green dramatically won the WWE Women's Interim Championship in a thrilling ladder match, upsetting heavy favorite Charlotte Flair.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
More pragmatic figures in the establishment accuse these hard-liners of upsetting the country’s social peace with needless political repression, and by seeking to micromanage the lifestyles of ordinary people.

— Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026

Definition of upsetting

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The operation has brought a fuel crisis that is embarrassing the Kremlin more than four years after Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor.

— Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
Kyiv’s forces have targeted Russian oil facilities, causing fuel shortages and embarrassing President Vladimir Putin.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026

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