Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of disappointing.
- noun The condition or feeling of being disappointed.
- noun One that disappoints.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Defeat or failure of expectation, hope, wish, desire, or intention; miscarriage of design or plan: as, he has had many disappointments in life.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.
- noun That which disappoints.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The emotion felt when a strongly held
expectation is not met. - noun countable A circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone
- noun a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized
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Examples
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[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.
Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor 1832
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The fact that the NCAA defeat was such a disappointment is a product of the Lobos 'season.
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But her disappointment is always transparent and Don sees it.
Janet Turley: Mad Men Season 4 Finale: Fresh Starts Janet Turley 2010
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Another disappointment is the under-use of Michael Chiklis of “The Shield” and “Fantastic Four” fame.
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But her disappointment is always transparent and Don sees it.
Janet Turley: Mad Men Season 4 Finale: Fresh Starts Janet Turley 2010
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DEAR COLD: In my mind, storming out when your girlfriend expresses her disappointment is an overreaction.
Ask Amy washingtonpost.com 2010
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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.
Robin Carnahan 'Disappointed' In Obama's Lack Of Fiscal Discipline 2010
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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.
Robin Carnahan 'Disappointed' In Obama's Lack Of Fiscal Discipline 2010
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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
chained_bear commented on the word disappointment
"...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.)
January 28, 2009