Have you ever heard someone use the word "crestfallen" in real life?

Answer 1

Only time I've actually heard it is older guys that tell war stories from WW2.

Answer 2

Yes! A literature professor once said his entire class looked a bit crestfallen after the first exam. He used many words most people have never used or even heard used. He was a true master of the language.

Answer 3

Oh my dear, yes indeedy. Poor thing--that's what we all call him--is ever so crestfallen since Dot left. He just sits there drinking beer and watching football all day...the depression he's in must be terrible, poor thing. Maybe we should do an intervention.

Answer 4

It is still used by the more erudite and scholarly members of the community, but not so much by the hoi poloi.
One believes it dates from the days of the Joust, when the crest on the helm of an unhorsed knight contender would be "Fallen in the mire." .

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

If I did it would probably be as a joke (someone being droll). It's kind of somebody wringing their hands in grief or shuddering with horror (not anything you're likely to come across in real life).

Answer 7

Yes, using long words is an indication of a decent education.

Answer 8

While it is not popular in ordinary usage, i have used it and heard it used on occasion. It is a very "graphic" word, and helps people to get a picture of what you are trying to convey in terms of a person being discouraged, depressed, disspirited. :))

Answer 9

yeah

my English teacher used it once when we were going over a poem

other than that, you really don't hear it often, maybe in some movies

Answer 10

Of course. I used it often to describe myself when my students don't do as well as I thought they would.