Usually means: Deeply disappointed and visibly disheartened.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word crestfallen:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. crestfallen: Merriam-Webster
  2. crestfallen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crestfallen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crestfallen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crestfallen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crestfallen, crestfallen: Wordnik
  7. crestfallen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crestfallen: Wiktionary
  9. crestfallen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crestfallen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crestfallen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Crestfallen, crestfallen: Dictionary.com
  13. Crestfallen, The Crestfallen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Crestfallen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. crestfallen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. crestfallen: Rhymezone
  17. Crestfallen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Crestfallen: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. crestfallen: FreeDictionary.org
  20. crestfallen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Crestfallen: The Word Detective
  22. crestfallen: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. crestfallen: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. crestfallen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crestfallen (song), crestfallen: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crestfallen: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Sad because of a disappointment.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete, of a horse) Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side.

Similar:
dejected, chapfallen, chopfallen, deflated, downfallen, fallen, infallen, windfallen, disappointed, gutted, more...

Opposite:
elated, overjoyed, thrilled, ecstatic

Types:
disappointed, sad, dejected, pessimistic, gloomy, downcast, more...

Adjectives:
little, much, poor, bottom, retired, irrepressible

Colors:
    midnight blue,     slate gray,     charcoal,     ash gray,     steel blue, more...



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Similar:
dejected, chapfallen, chopfallen, deflated, downfallen, fallen, infallen, windfallen, disappointed, gutted, more...

Opposite:
elated, overjoyed, thrilled, ecstatic

Types:
disappointed, sad, dejected, pessimistic, gloomy, downcast, more...

Adjectives:
little, much, poor, bottom, retired, irrepressible

Colors:
    midnight blue,     slate gray,     charcoal,     ash gray,     steel blue, more...



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