1. Disappointingly unsuccessful
   "discomfited expectations and thwarted ambitions";
   - defeated, disappointed, foiled, frustrated, thwarted, crushed, gutted [Brit, informal]

1. People who are defeated
   "the Romans had no pity for the discomfited";
   - defeated

1. Cause to lose one's composure
   "Persons frequently employ falsehoods to a sick man who cannot recover, lest it should discomfit his mind";
   - upset, discompose, untune [rare], disconcert

See also: unsuccessful

Type of: arouse, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, kindle, people, provoke, raise