disappointment
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
disappoint + -ment
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NounEdit
disappointment (countable and uncountable, plural disappointments)
- (uncountable) A feeling of sadness or frustration when a strongly held expectation is not met.
- 1992, Today, News Group Newspapers Ltd
- Choking back his disappointment after his own team's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa, he said: "I've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side."
- 1992, Today, News Group Newspapers Ltd
- (countable) A circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met.
- 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
- 1990, Peter Hennessy, Cabinet, Basil Blackwell Ltd
- As the disappointments crowded in — the economy, Rhodesia, strife within the trade-union movement — Wilson tried the expedient of a semi-formal inner Cabinet, or Parliamentary Committee, as he misleadingly liked to call it.
- (countable) That which causes feelings of disappointment.
- Our trip to California was a disappointment.
- What a disappointment.
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emotion
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circumstance
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cause, letdown
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