Noun
disappointment (countable and uncountable, plural disappointments)
- (uncountable) 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.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 184: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.
1992, News Group Newspapers Ltd, Today: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."
- (countable) 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.
2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport: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.
1990, Peter Hennessy, Cabinet, Basil Blackwell Ltd: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.
- (countable) Something or someone that disappoints: that which causes disappointment.
Even a trip to beautiful California can be a disappointment.
What a disappointment!
Usage notes
Used with the prepositions at/with/over.
Translations
emotion
- Afrikaans: teleurstelling
- Albanian: zhgënjim (sq)
- Amharic: አለመደሰት (ʾälämädäsät)
- Arabic: خَيْبَة أَمَل f (ḵaybat ʔamal)
- Armenian: հիասթափություն (hy) (hiastʻapʻutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: xəyal qırıqlığı
- Belarusian: расчарава́нне n (rasčaravánnje)
- Bulgarian: разочарова́ние (bg) n (razočarovánie)
- Burmese: စိတ်ပျက်စရာ (citpyakca.ra)
- Catalan: decepció (ca) f
- Cebuano: kahigawad
- Chichewa: kukhumudwa
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 失望 (zh) (shīwàng)
- Czech: zklamání (cs) n
- Danish: skuffelse c
- Dutch: teleurstelling (nl) f
- Esperanto: malkontentigo, elreviĝo, senreviĝo
- Estonian: pettumus
- Finnish: pettymys (fi)
- French: déception (fr) f
- Galician: decepción (gl) f
- German: Enttäuschung (de) f, Verdruss (de) m (exalted)
- Greek: απογοήτευση (el) f (apogoḯtefsi)
- Gujarati: નિરાશા (nirāśā)
- Hebrew: אכזבה (he) f (akhzava)
- Hindi: मायूसी (hi) f (māyūsī), निराशा (hi) f (nirāśā), आशाभंग (hi) (āśābhaṅg)
- Hungarian: csalódás (hu)
- Icelandic: vonbrigði n pl
- Ido: decepto (io)
- Igbo: ndakpọ olileanya (ig)
- Indonesian: kekecewaan (id)
- Irish: díomá f
- Italian: delusione (it) f, disappunto (it) m
- Japanese: 失望 (ja) (しつぼう, shitsubō)
- Kannada: ನಿರಾಶೆ (kn) (nirāśe)
- Kazakh: түңілу (tüñılu)
- Khmer: ការខកចិត្ត (kar khakchet)
- Korean: 실망(失望) (ko) (silmang)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دڵساری (dillsarî)
- Northern Kurdish: dilsarî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: көңүл калгандык (köŋül kalgandık)
- Lao: ຄວາມຜິດຫວັງ (khuām phit wang)
- Lithuanian: nusivylimas
- Macedonian: разочарување n (razočaruvanje)
- Malagasy: fahadisoam-panantenana
- Malay: kekecewaan (ms)
- Malayalam: നിരാശ (ml) (nirāśa), ഇച്ഛാഭംഗം (ml) (icchābhaṅgaṁ)
- Maltese: diżappunt
- Maori: ketekete, pāpōuri
- Marathi: निराशा (nirāśā)
- Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭥𐭫𐭩𐭯𐭩𐭤 (ʾʿlypyh /ōrēbīh/)
- Nepali: निराशा (nirāśā)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skuffelse m
- Nynorsk: vonbrot n, vonbrott n, skuffelse m
- Oromo: mufannaa
- Persian: دلسردی (fa) (delsardi)
- Polish: rozczarowanie (pl) n, zawód (pl) m
- Portuguese: decepção (pt) f
- Romanian: dezamăgire (ro) f, decepție (ro) f
- Russian: разочарова́ние (ru) n (razočarovánije)
- Scottish Gaelic: briseadh-dùil m, mealladh-dùil m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: разочаре́ње n
- Roman: razočarénje (sh) n
- Sinhalese: බලාපොරොත්තු සුන්වීම (balāporottu sunwīma)
- Slovak: sklamanie
- Slovene: razočaranje n
- Spanish: decepción (es) f, desilusión (es) f, chasco (es)
- Sundanese: kuciwaan
- Swedish: besvikelse (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagkabigo (tl)
- Tamil: ஏமாற்றம் (ta) (ēmāṟṟam)
- Telugu: ఆశాభంగం (āśābhaṅgaṁ)
- Thai: ความผิดหวัง (th) (kwaam-pìt-wǎng)
- Turkish: hayal kırıklığı (tr)
- Ukrainian: розчарува́ння n (rozčaruvánnja)
- Uzbek: umidsizlik (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự thất vọng (sự 失望)
- Welsh: siom f
- West Frisian: teloarstelling
- Xhosa: ukuphoxeka
- Yiddish: אַנטוישונג (antoyshung)
- Yoruba: oriyin
- Zulu: ukudumala
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