unillusioned

[ uhn-i-loo-zhuhnd ]

adjective

1. having or manifesting no illusions; free from illusions:

   to be unillusioned about one's chances for success.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unillusioned¹

First recorded in 1925–30; un- ¹ + illusion + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Moser takes Sontag at her word and is as unillusioned about her as she is about herself.

From The New Yorker

The narrator’s tone is not especially unhappy; it is wistful, unillusioned, stoic.

From The New Yorker

Bewilderingly, the protagonists of Solstad’s fictions have coldly identified the life-lie but seem to have resigned themselves to yet more of it—a resignation so unillusioned that it almost resembles rebellion.

From The New Yorker

Garner is a natural storyteller: her unillusioned eye makes her clarity compulsive.

From The New Yorker

The members weren’t sad, precisely, but they were unillusioned.

From Wall Street Journal