disappointment
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1.6
- noun
- /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/
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decepción
- When she heard that she didn't get the job, it felt like a major disappointment after all her hard work.
- come as a disappointment
- a great disappointment
- such a disappointment
Childhood is where we are supposed to learn from the disappointments, big and small.
- Childhood is where we are supposed to learn from the disappointments, big and small.
- Yeah, so first it was that's biggest disappointment of my career.
- He says stocks must contend with future earnings disappointments and are not as cheap as they appear.
- Because they're not going to get the toy they wanted because some disappointment will happen, you know?
- Now with all of those great new features, there is one rather unfortunate disappointment and that's this.
- Having said that, I think meritocracy has been a disappointment.
- So it wasn't the biggest disappointment.
- I mean, that was honestly like, I've had, you know, some crushing disappointments.
- However, one that was a huge disappointment for me, Middle Game by Shannon McGuire, same author.
- The mecanoid is a terrible disappointment.
- But the biggest disappointment for me personally was that I didn't have any real estate.
- If I'm like at the airport with my child, I think it's going to be a disappointment meeting me.
Examples
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Yet already that hopeful mood has changed to disappointment, trepidation, and, in much of the developing world, despair.
Academic text (2002) -
Oh, by the way, I know this will come as a great disappointment, but I can only stay three weeks this time.
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I was a big disappointment to my father.
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Just to give up now would be such a disappointment, not just to me, but to my parents.
Academic text (1996) -
And I imagine it was a great disappointment to Rita as well.
Fiction book (1993) -
Childhood is where we are supposed to learn from the disappointments, big and small.
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But the biggest disappointment for me personally was that I didn't have any real estate.
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Compared to the expectations at the beginning of the conference, this leaflet was a disappointment.
Academic text (2011) -
What a disappointment!
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The cancellation of the concert was a huge disappointment for all the fans who had bought tickets.
Synonyms
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7.2
An event that makes you feel disappointed or frustrated
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5.6
Something that makes you feel sad or disappointed
A difference between what you expected and what actually happened
Antonyms
How Disappointing
Surface Forms
Morphology
disappointment = disappoint (opaque) = dis + appoint + ment
The noun is regularly formed from 'disappoint', but in this sense it refers to a person, thing, or event that disappoints rather than the feeling itself.
Etymology
Disappointment comes from the parts dis- 'not' and appoint 'to set or decide', as in appointment. So a disappointment is an event or thing that is 'not as expected' and therefore makes people feel let down.