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This is a noun: the awkward feeling of being put off your stride — a little uncomfortable, , or , often in front of other people. You might feel it when a joke dies, a plan fails in public, or someone shows you were wrong. It is a formal, slightly old-fashioned word; most people today would just say embarrassment or awkwardness. Though actually, the older French story is stronger than that mild blush: desconfiture meant a rout, a real defeat. English later it, and some careful writers still use it for a small public defeat — being shown up — not only for a red face. It is not the same as discomfort, which is more about pain or not being at ease in body or mind.
困窘、難堪（書面；不是身體「不舒服」的 discomfort）
組成From Old French desconfiture, “rout, defeat”; compare French déconfiture.
同家族的字
- discomfitthe verb this noun belongs to: to throw someone off, or (older) to defeat them
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
discomfiturenoun/dɪsˈkʌmfɪtʃə(ɹ)/
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obsoleteDefeat in battle.
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An emotional state similar to that arising from defeat; frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment.
- Some of us are concerned because as yet the South shows no penitence. But what exactly do we mean by this? Since down to the close of the war she never confessed any for braving it, the only penitence now left her is that which springs solely from the sense of discomfiture; and since this evidently would be a contrition hypocritical, it would be unworthy in us to demand it.
- One of them ended its career as a passenger carrying vehicle in 1907, by freezing in Kemp Town Tunnel, to the discomfiture of some important season ticket holders, who did not hesitate to let the directors know what they thought about the incident.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。