crestfallen
KREST-faw-lunadjMeaning disappointed and downcast
Memory hook CREST-FALLEN: the comb droops. Rocky the rooster loses the crowing contest, and his proud red comb flops down over one eye. He is crestfallen.
Kai was crestfallen when the trip to the lake was canceled.
In context Sami had practiced his speech for weeks, so he was crestfallen when the assembly was called off at the last minute.
Similar disappointed, dejected, downcast, deflated
Opposite elated, jubilant, cheerful
From crest, the comb on a bird’s head or the plume on a helmet, + fallen: the word pictures a drooping crest.