Word Finder - disappointment

definition

A feeling of sadness or frustration when a strongly held expectation is not met.

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A circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met.

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That which causes feelings of disappointment.

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Our trip to California was a disappointment.

Disappointment was written in his face.

Fred's disappointment was apparent.

Her disappointment was visible.

She didn't, and the disappointment brought tears to her eyes once again.

Disappointment flashed across her face.

Sometimes it was easier to accept his disappointment than sympathy.

Afraid he would hear the disappointment in her voice.

Carmen turned to the door, fighting off a feeling of disappointment that Alex didn't do more.

Disappointment dripped from her voice.

Disappointment spiraled through her.

Ully sighed in disappointment, and she rolled her eyes.

Our family is prone to ongoing disappointment and treason.

To their disappointment there was within this mountain no regular flight of steps by means of which they could mount to the earth's surface.

It seemed to her that everybody knew about her disappointment and was laughing at her and pitying her.

I could sense Betsy's disappointment and Martha's relief.

We plodded our way through dinner but the disappointment of the bad news phone call weighted on everyone's mind.

That nishani was beautiful was no great disappointment to him!

When the troops finally returned, a pall of disappointment hung over them like a shroud.

A'Ran watched him go, sensing the same disappointment and doubt he'd seen in his sister earlier.

Hopefully she wouldn't be a disappointment.

Yet its result was a disappointment to those who had looked for means of inland navigation by the Macquarie river, and by its supposed issue in a mediterranean sea.

Martha listened, her initial disappointment melting away.

It struck her suddenly — how much disappointment he had endured.

This disappointment brought on again the spiritual crisis he had experienced in his illness, and for a considerable time the conflict went on within him.

Yet at that moment the adoption of a clear line of policy, in accord with the central powers, might have saved Italy from the loss of prestige entailed by her bearing in regard to the Russo-Turkish War and the Austrian acquisition of Bosnia, and might have prevented the disappointment subsequently occasioned by the outcome of the Congress of Berlin.

As a precaution against Tatar invasions he founded fortified towns on his southern frontiers - Tambov, Kozlov, Penza and Simbirsk; but when the Don Cossacks offered him Azov, which they had captured from the Turks, and a National Assembly, convoked for the purpose of considering the question, were in favour of accepting it as a means of increasing Russian influence on the Black Sea, he decided that the town should be restored to the sultan, much to the disappointment of its captors.

In his absence the open violence and extortion of Agesilaus, combined with the popular disappointment at the failure of the agrarian scheme, brought about the restoration of Leonidas and the deposition of Cleombrotus, who took refuge at the temple of Apollo at Taenarum and escaped death only at the entreaty of his wife, Leonidas's daughter Chilonis.

The Berlin treaty was a disappointment to the Gregorian Armenians, who had hoped that Armenia and Cilicia would have been formed into an autonomous province administered by Christians.

A dented or broken juicer is just another item for the landfill and a disappointment for you.

When you expect magic, real life can be a disappointment.

Instead of owning up to his indiscretion directly with you, he acted like a coward and sent you a message in order to avoid hearing your pain and disappointment.

However, when you seek a guarantee and/or proof that this guy 'is the one,' you're setting him and yourself up for disappointment.

She shook off a feeling of disappointment.

Don't you think you're setting yourself up for a disappointment?

I asked, not hiding my disappointment.

She didn't complain, but he felt her disappointment.

She grimaced as she reread the text, torn between amusement and disappointment.

Evelyn sighed in disappointment.

But the eagerly anticipated package was a gross disappointment.

Here they experienced a cruel disappointment.

Another disappointment befel him in the same quarter, the surrender of the French forces in Egypt to the British expedition commanded first by General Abercromby and afterwards by General John Hely-Hutchinson (30th of August 1801).

On Louis declining the honour, it devolved on Joseph, king of Naples, who vacated that throne for the benefit of Murat - a source of disappointment and annoyance to both.

Teaching classes was unexciting to him and Martha recently told me his summer plant testing project was a major disappointment.

During the trying winter of 1854-55, the suffering he was compelled to witness, the censures, in great part unjust, which he had to endure and all the manifold anxieties of the siege seriously undermined his health, and although he found a friend and ardent supporter in his new French colleague, General Pelissier (q.v.), disappointment at the failure of the assault of the 18th of June 1855 finally broke his spirit, and very shortly afterwards, on the 28th of June 1855, he died of dysentery.

To Walton himself, however, the Reformation brought no disappointment.

Yet it was certainly a cause of bitter disappointment to him that he had to stand by while the country was in his opinion not only misgoverned, but led to ruin.

Considering the important part played by the Egyptian sojourn of the Hebrews, as narrated in the Scriptures, it was certainly not an overenthusiastic prediction that the Egyptian monuments when fully investigated would divulge important references to Joseph, to Moses, and to the all-important incidents of the Exodus; but half a century of expectant attention in this direction has led only to disappointment.

It is not too much, then, to say that failure to find such a monument has caused deep disappointment to Bible scholars everywhere.

But it was one of prolonged disappointment and annoyance.

His disappointment was great when the governor-generalship was, owing to party exigencies, conferred on Sir Gilbert Elliot (Lord Minto); he declined, it is said, soon afterwards the government of the Cape, but accepted a K.C.B.