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disappointment

noun
/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/UK/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/US

Etymology

From disappoint + -ment.

Definitions

  1. The feeling or state of being disappointed

    The feeling or state of being disappointed: a feeling of sadness or frustration when something is not as good as one hoped or expected, or when something bad unexpectedly happens.

    • Even a trip to beautiful California can cause disappointment.
    • They remembered too keenly their pleasant credulity as to what to-morrow would bring forth, to dare indulge expectation of its pleasure; they had been disappointed once—so might they be again—for disappointment ever leaves fear behind.
    • Choking back his disappointment after his own team's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa, he said: "I've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side."

  2. An example or the act of disappointing

    An example or the act of disappointing: a circumstance in which a positive expectation is not achieved.

    • The disappointment with our trip to California caused bickering.
    • For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
    • As the disappointments crowded in — the economy, Rhodesia, strife within the trade-union movement — Wilson tried the expedient of a semi-formal inner Cabinet, or Parliamentary Committee, as he misleadingly liked to call it.

  3. Something or someone that disappoints

    Something or someone that disappoints: that which causes disappointment.

    • Even a trip to beautiful California can be a disappointment.
    • What a disappointment!

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Derived

anticippointment, Cape Disappointment

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disappointment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at disappointment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at disappointment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA