🎆 A hissing firework 😞 A disappointment 💊 A fizzy tablet

fizzer

1 8.6

Something that disappoints people after high expectations

noun
/ˈfɪzə/

Archaic

: decepción

After months of planning, the surprise party was a fizzer because nobody showed up.

Examples

My feeling is that if a new technology doesn't make it within five or so years, it could be a fizzer.

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Many people were excited for the movie, but it turned out to be a complete fizzer after all the hype.
The new restaurant was a fizzer, failing to impress with its bland food and slow service.

Synonyms

flopper

vsfizzer

Offensive

1 8.2

Something that fails completely

is a disappointment that may not mean total failure

damp squib

vsfizzer

1 9.2

An event that is much less exciting than people expected

is a letdown especially after strong anticipation

wet firecracker

vsfizzer

Offensive

7.9

A person or thing that should be exciting but is disappointing

is disappointment after high hopes rather than simply lacking energy

Antonyms

success

∞ 1.0

Getting what you want after working hard

hit

465 1.3

Something very popular and successful, like a song or show

How Disappointing

fiasco

76 6.2

to flop

19 4.0

fizzer

Archaic

1 8.6

disappointment

117 1.6

letdown

27 3.4

Surface Forms

fizzer singular

fizzers plural

Morphology

fizzer = fizz (semi-transparent) = fizz + er

Formally 'fizz' + '-er' is intact, but the sense 'a disappointment / flop' is a figurative extension from 'to fizzle out' and is not fully predictable for all learners.

Etymology

Fizzer for a disappointment comes from the idea of fizz: if something starts loudly but then dies away with a weak 'fizz', it fails to reach a big ending, so it becomes a fizzer.