- disaffected (adj.)
[disaffected 词源字典] - "estranged, hostile," usually in reference to authority, 1630s, past participle adjective from disaffect. Related: Disaffectedly; disaffectedness.
[disaffected etymology, disaffected origin, 英语词源]
- disaffection (n.)
- c. 1600; see dis- + affection.
- disagree (v.)
- late 15c., "refuse to assent," from Old French desagreer (12c.), from des- (see dis-) + agreer (see agree). Related: Disagreed; disagreeing.
- disagreeable (adj.)
- c. 1400, "not in agreement," from Old French desagreable (13c.), from des- (see dis-) + agreable (see agreeable). Meaning "not in accord with one's taste" is from 1690s. Related: Disagreeably; disagreeableness. Slightly earlier in same sense was unagreeable (late 14c.).
- disagreement (n.)
- late 15c.; see dis- + agreement.
- disallow (v.)
- late 14c., "to refuse to praise," from Old French desalouer "to blame," from des- (see dis-) + alouer (see allow); meaning "to reject" is from 1550s. Related: Disallowed; disallowing; disallowance.
- disallowable (adj.)
- mid-15c., from disallow + -able.
- disambiguate (v.)
- 1963, back-formation from disambiguation. Related: Disambiguated; disambiguating.
- disambiguation (n.)
- 1827; see dis- + ambiguous + -ation.
- disappear (v.)
- early 15c., disaperen, from dis- "do the opposite of" + appear. Earlier was disparish (early 15c.), from French disparaiss-, stem of disparaître. Transitive sense. "cause to disappear," is from 1897 in chemistry; by 1948 of inconvenient persons. Related: Disappeared; disappearing; disappears. Slang disappearing act is originally of magic shows; in figurative sense of "getting away" first attested 1913.
- disappearance (n.)
- 1712; see disappear + -ance.
- disappoint (v.)
- early 15c., "dispossess of appointed office," from Middle French desappointer (14c.) "undo the appointment, remove from office," from des- (see dis-) + appointer "appoint" (see appoint).
Modern sense of "to frustrate expectations" (late 15c.) is from secondary meaning of "fail to keep an appointment." Related: Disappointed; disappointing. - disappointed (adj.)
- 1550s, past participle adjective from disappoint. Related: Disappointedly.
- disappointment (n.)
- 1610s, "fact of disappointing;" see disappoint + -ment. Meaning "state or feeling of being disappointed" is from 1756. Meaning "a thing that disappoints" is from 1756.
- disapprobation (n.)
- 1640s; see dis- + approbation.
- disapproval (n.)
- 1660s; see disapprove + -al (2).
- disapprove (v.)
- late 15c., "disprove;" as the reverse of approve it is first attested 1640s. See dis- + approve. Related: Disapproved; disapproving.
- disarm (v.)
- late 14c., from Old French desarmer (11c.), from des- (see dis-) + armer "to arm" (see arm (v.)). The figurative sense is slightly earlier in English than the literal. Related: Disarmed; disarming.
- disarmament (n.)
- 1795; see dis- + armament.
- disarray (v.)
- late 14c.; see dis- "lack of" + array. Perhaps formed on the analogy of Old French desareer.
