disappointment

Roget category 509

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.6. Extension of thought
›› 4.6.2. To the future

#509. [Failure of expectation.] Disappointment

noun

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.

verb

be disappointed — look blank, look blue — look aghast, stand aghast etc. (wonder) 870 — find to one's cost — laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth — find one a false prophet.
not realize one's hope, not realize one's expectation.
[cause to be disappointed] disappoint — frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure) 732 — crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage — balk, jilt, bilk — play one false, play a trick — dash the cup from the lips, tantalize — dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish) 870.

adjective

disappointed etc. v. — disconcerted, aghast — disgruntled — out of one's reckoning.

phrase

the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse — parturiunt montes [Lat.] — nascitur ridiculus mus [Lat.] [Horace]; diis aliter visum [Lat.], the bubble burst — one's countenance falling.

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