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gutted

UK/ˈɡʌtɪd/US/ˈɡʌtɪd/
adjectiveB2+2 meaningsOccasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,518 of 15,258neutral

Gutted means bitterly disappointed, or emptied out inside. Absolutely gutted, gutted by the result, a gutted building.

The emotional sense is British and informal and it is stronger than disappointed — gutted is what a player says after losing a final. The literal sense is a building stripped to its shell or a fish with the insides removed.

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Definitions of gutted

  1. 1adjectiveguttedBitterly disappointed.B2+

    “I was gutted when I missed the last train and couldn't get to the concert.”

  2. 2adjectiveemptiedEmptied out inside.C1

    “After the fire, the old theatre was completely gutted; only the outer walls still stood.”

gutted is a state of disappointment.

Where it comes from

Gut plus -ed. The emotional sense is twentieth-century British slang, from the image of being emptied out.

  1. Middle English

    gutted

  2. English, today

    gutted

From Middle English gutted, gotted, equivalent to gut + ed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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  • gut
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