disappoint

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To sadden or displease (someone) by underperforming, or by not delivering something…

   To sadden or displease (someone) by underperforming, or by not delivering something promised or hoped for.

   • His lack of respect disappointed her.
   • I was disappointed by last year’s revenue.
   • Here are officers enough at Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.
2. 2

   To deprive (someone of something expected or hoped for).

   • They that haue money in their purse, are afrayde and in doubte, yea and are continuallye martyred with feare, leaste GOD should disappoint them of their pray, and abate their portion.
3. 3

   To fail to meet (an expectation)

   To fail to meet (an expectation); to fail to fulfil (a hope).

   • […] his life was despaired of; and all Japan was filled with alarm and apprehension at the prospect of an infant’s ascending the throne: […] Their fears, however, were happily disappointed by the recovery of the emperor,
   • “But perhaps your accommodations—your cottage—your furniture—have disappointed your expectations?”
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   1. 4

      To show (an opinion, belief, etc.) to be mistaken.

      • I am sure you will not disappoint my opinion of you, by failing at any time to treat your aunt Norris with the respect and attention that are due to her.
      • “Well, I thought it was too good to be true,” he said at last, with a sigh of disappointed conviction.
   2. 5

      To prevent (something planned or attempted).

      • He [God] disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
      • The wary Trojan shrinks, and bending low Beneath his Buckler, disappoints the Blow.
      • But heavy rains, the difficulties of the country, and the good intelligence which the Outlaw was always supplied with, disappointed their well-concerted combination.

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