Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of disappointing.
- n. The condition or feeling of being disappointed.
- n. One that disappoints.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Defeat or failure of expectation, hope, wish, desire, or intention; miscarriage of design or plan: as, he has had many disappointments in life.
- n. The state of being disappointed or defeated in the realization of one's expectation or intention in regard to some matter, or the resulting feeling of depression, mortification, or vexation.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met.
- n. countable A circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.
- n. That which disappoints.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone
- n. a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized
Examples
“[Page 221] even with respect to the spiritual interests of beloved friends, where certainly acquiescence in disappointment is most difficult (perhaps in this world impossible) even in this case, there is great consolation in recollecting, that the Judge of all the earth will do right.”
“Another disappointment is the under-use of Michael Chiklis of “The Shield” and “Fantastic Four” fame.”
“DEAR COLD: In my mind, storming out when your girlfriend expresses her disappointment is an overreaction.”
“The fact that the NCAA defeat was such a disappointment is a product of the Lobos 'season.”
“But her disappointment is always transparent and Don sees it.”
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“So it is not without significance that hours after the White House introduced its FY2011 budget proposal Democratic Senate candidate Robin Carnahan -- Missouri's Secretary of State and a figure well liked within the progressive community -- put out a statement expressing what she called her disappointment with Obama's lack of fiscal discipline.”
The Huffington Post: Robin Carnahan 'Disappointed' In Obama's Lack Of Fiscal Discipline
“Elizabeth McCabe, 45 years old, of the Philadelphia suburb of North Wales, switched parties last year over what she described as disappointment with the Bush administration and to support then-Sen.”
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“I think the disappointment is the same if you lose in the”
“She agreed with me that it would never do in my father's state of health to join such an expedition, but she was greatly distressed for what she called my disappointment, though I tried to assure her it was not enough to think about.”
“I don't hang the word 'disappointment' around my shoulders," Hurdle said.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘disappointment’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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result; product; instrument; means
pavement, adornment, measurement, disappointment, appointment, reappointment, government, management, development, department, movement, agreement and 40 more...
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Words with a P in them
opalescent, apposite, kelp, culprit, corporeal, copper, impinge, impose, impetus, impassible, oppress, maple and 40 more...
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Emotions
affection, longing, cheerfulness, pride, optimism, relief, success, suprise, irritation, rage, hope, love and 31 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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That's What She Said
not to me, lest ye get confused ;)
incompetent, loser, pathetic, shameful, awkward, tiny, little, sad, weak, insufficient, inadequate, lame and 21 more...
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Bear With Me
Phrases including things that bear or are borne (with the meaning "to support," "to hold," or "to carry").
witness, grudge, burden, repeating, weight, strain, child, fruit, examination, blame, suffering, cross and 50 more...
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thug life
selfish, dowdy, stagnant, articulate, amory, blaine, amory blaine, gaudy, advanced, sadness, life, frustration and 24 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for disappointment.
chained_bear "...a great number of people are running around thinking that they are depressed when it may be that they are simply disappointed....
Not that disappointment is merely a case of depression lite. It can cast heavy shadows over one's life, often with lasting consequences....As the character played by Shirley MacLaine in The Evening Star (the sequel to Terms of Endearment) put it, 'Disappointment has ruined more lives than all the diseases known to man.'
But it's not disappointment that ruins lives. It is the incapacity or the refusal to deal with life after disappointment."
(From "Are you depressed--or just disappointed?" by Michael Vincent Miller, seen here.) Jan 28, 2009