disappointment as a noun: - 1
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disappointment
noun
1 disappointment
A feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized:
— His hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment.
synonym: letdown.
Roget 832:
discontent,
discontentment;
dissatisfaction;
dissent
etc.
489.
disappointment,
mortification;
cold comfort;
regret
etc.
833;
repining,
taking on
etc.
v.;
heart-burning,
heart-grief;
querulousness
etc.
(lamentation)
839;
hypercriticism.
inquietude,
vexation of spirit,
soreness;
worry,
concern,
fear
etc.
860.
[person who is discontented]
malcontent,
grumbler,
growler,
croaker,
dissident,
dissenter,
laudator temporis acti [Lat.];
censurer,
complainer,
fault-finder,
murmerer†.
cave of Adullam†,
indignation meeting,
winter of our discontent"
[Henry VI];
with what I most enjoy contented least"
[Shakespeare].
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Roget 509:
disappointment;
blighted hope,
balk;
blow;
anticlimax;
slip 'twixt cup and lip;
nonfulfillment of one's hopes;
sad disappointment,
bitter disappointment;
trick of fortune;
afterclap;
false expectation,
vain expectation;
miscalculation
etc.
481;
fool's paradise;
much cry and little wool.
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Dutch: fiasco, tegenvaller, ontgoocheling, misrekening, flop, desillusie, afknapper, deceptie, teleurstelling
Polish: rozczarowanie, zawód
2 disappointment
An act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone.
synonym: dashing hopes.
Dutch: deceptie, kater, teleurstelling
Moby thesaurus: Faustianism, awakening, ban, blackball, blackballing, blighted hope, blow, calamity, chagrin, cold comfort, complaint, dashed hopes, debunking, defeat, dejection, depression, dim view, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disaster, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, discouragement, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, displeasure, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissatisfiedness, dissent, distaste, distress, divine discontent, enlightenment, envy, exclusion, failure, fiasco, fizzle, frustration, hope deferred, ill humor, indignation, low estimation, low opinion, mortification, objection, opposition, opposure, ostracism, peevishness, petulance, protest, querulousness, rebelliousness, regret, rejection, resentment, restiveness, restlessness, return to reality, rude awakening, sourness, sulkiness, thumbs-down, undeception, uneasiness, unfulfillment, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, unspelling, vexation of spirit ... show more.
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