chagrin

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or mortification.
2. (countable, uncountable) A type of leather or skin with a rough surface.

Verb

1. (transitive) To bother or vex; to mortify.
2. (obsolete, rare, reflexive) To be vexed or annoyed.

Adj

Feeling chagrin; annoyed; vexed, fretful.

Synonyms

vex

vexation

annoy

aggrieve

displease

mortification

offend

resentment

irritation

annoyance

trouble

indignation

mortify

grief

humiliation

disgust

affliction

regret

anger

💢

displeasure

distress

irritate

abase

worry

bitter disappointment

humble

deep regret

humiliate

embarrassment

embarrass

sorrow

straiten

unhappiness

weary

😩

nursed grievance

shame

livor

headache

acrimony

afflict

bind

bitterness

bother

botheration

compress

despite

disappointment

discomfit

discompose

disenchantment

Translations

verdriet

chagrin

disgusto

Ärger

dépit

dispetto

mortificación

chagrijn

mortificare

humilier

mortificazione

ennui

Verdruss

dispiacere

verdrießen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃæɡ.ɹɪn/

Etymology

Cognate with Middle French: chagriner

Cognate with Old French: chagrin

Cognate with Old High German: gram

Cognate with French: chagrin

In summary

From French chagrin (“sorrow”), from Middle French chagrin (“pain, affliction”) (compare Middle French chagriner, chagrigner (“to experience sorrow”), Old French chagrin (“painful, afflicted”)), probably derived from Old Northern French chagreiner, chagraigner (“to sadden”), of uncertain origin. Likely an enlargement of Old French greignier, graignier (“to cringe, growl, be sullen, be angry, grieve over”), from Old French graigne (“sadness, resentment, grief”), from graim (“sorrowful”), related to Old High German gram (“furious, gloomy, grieved”). The initial syllable is obscure. It may represent Old French chat (“cat”) to express the idea of "lamenting or yowling like cats" (compare German Katzenjammer (“distress, frustration, depression, chagrin”, literally “cat-wailing, cat-misery”), katzbalgen (“to cat-fight”)).
An alternative theory is that it came from a metaphorical use of French chagrin, (peau de) chagrain (“a type of roughened leather”), with the connection of roughness, though some dictionaries consider this to be a separate word derived from Old French peau de sagrin, from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (sağrı, “the rump of an animal, skin for tawing”). The alteration of initial s to ch is likely due to influence from chagrin meaning "sorrow".