OUT OF COUNTENANCE

Definition: OUT OF COUNTENANCE

OUT OF COUNTENANCE

1. Not bold or assured; confounded; abashed. ``Their best friends were out of countenance, because they found that the imputations . . . were well grounded.'' --Clarendon.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Discourtesy

Verb: be -rude; Adjective: insult; treat with discourtesy; take a name in vain; make bold with, make free with; take a liberty; stare out of countenance, ogle, point at, put to the blush.

Disrepute

Obscure. eclipse, outshine, take the shine out of; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; overshadow; leave in the background, put in the background; push into a corner, put one's nose out of joint; put out, put out of countenance.

Adjective: disgraced; Verb: blown upon; "shorn of its beams ", shorn of one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame; Noun: in bad repute; Noun: out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance; at a discount; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to show one's face; in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down at the elbows, down in the world.

Humility

Render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear.

Humbled; Verb: bowed down, resigned; abashed, ashamed, dashed; out of countenance; down in the mouth; down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers; humbled in the dust, browbeaten; chapfallen, crestfallen; dumfoundered. flabbergasted.

Insolence

Out face, outlook, outstare, outbrazen, outbrave; stare out of countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big; put on big looks, act the grand seigneur; mount the high horse, ride the high horse; toss the head, carry, with a high hand.

Modesty

Out of countenance; (humbled). reserved, constrained, demure.

Resentment

Put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears.

Crosswords: OUT OF COUNTENANCE

Books

• Prince dorus: Or, Flattery Put Out of countenance. A Poetical Version of an Ancient Tale (Collected Works of Charles Lamb) (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "OUT OF COUNTENANCE": put out of countenance ♦ put smb. out of countenance ♦ stare out of countenance. Additional references.

Danish

rædsom (abysmal, alarmed, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, gruesome, horrible, put out of countenance, terrible), forfærdelig (abysmal, alarmed, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, gruesome, horrible, put out of countenance, terrible). (various references)

Dutch

ontzettend (alarmed, dismayed, dumbfounded, put out of countenance), verbluffend (alarmed, dismayed, dumbfounded, phenomenal, put out of countenance), schrikkelijk (put out of countenance), schrikkelýk (alarmed, dismayed, dumbfounded, put out of countenance), schrikbarend (alarmed, dismayed, dumbfounded, put out of countenance). (various references)

Hungarian

szemtelenül végigmér vkit (to stare sy out of countenance). (various references)

Icelandic

hryllilegur (abhorrent, abominable, abysmal, alarmed, alien, awful, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, gruesome, hideous, horrible, put out of countenance, terrible). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�'潰される (to be put out of countenance, to lose face). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かお�'つぶされる (to be put out of countenance, to lose face). (various references)

Norwegian

forferdelig (abysmal, alarmed, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, gruesome, horrible, horrifying, put out of countenance, terrible). (various references)

Pig Latin

outay ofay ountenancecay

Romanian

tulbura pe cineva (put smb. out of countenance). (various references)

Swedish

hemsk (abysmal, agonizing, alarmed, atrocious, awful, bloodcurdling, creepy, dire, dismal, dismayed, dreadful, dreary, dumbfounded, eerie, eery, fell, frantic, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grisly, gruesome, hair raising, harrowing, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, put out of countenance, terrible, terrific, uncanny, weird, wicked), förfärlig (abominable, abysmal, alarmed, awful, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, frightful, gruesome, horrible, perishing, put out of countenance, terrible), bringa någon ur fattningen (put smb. out of countenance). (various references)

Turkish

bakışlarıyla utandırmak (put smb. out of countenance), şaşırtmak (addle, amaze, astonish, astound, baffle, bamboozle, bedevil, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, confuse, daze, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dislocate, disorient, disorientate, distract, embarrass, embrangle, flabbergast, floor, flummox, fuddle, give smb. a tumble, gravel, intrigue, jolt, knock back, mislead, moither, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, put smb. out of countenance, puzzle, rattle, shock, startle, stick, stun, stupefy, surprise, take aback, wow). (various references)

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