disappointment

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/

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Noun

disappointment (plural disappointments)

1. (uncountable) The emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met.

   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." — Today, News Group Newspapers Ltd, 1992

2. (countable) A circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met.
   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, 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.

   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. — Cabinet, Hennessy, Peter, Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1990

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Translations

emotion

• Arabic: خيبة أمل (ar) (kháybat 'ámal) f
• Armenian: հիասթափություն (hy) (hiastap’ut’yun)
• Bulgarian: разочарование (bg) (razočarovanie) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 失望 (cmn) (shīwàng)

• Czech: zklamání (cs) n
• Dutch: teleurstelling (nl) f
• Esperanto: malkontentigo (eo)
• Finnish: pettymys (fi)
• French: déception (fr) f
• German: Enttäuschung (de) f
• Greek: απογοήτευση (el) (apogoítefsi) f
• Hebrew: אכזבה (he) (akhzava) f
• Icelandic: vonbrigði (is) n pl
• Japanese: 失望 (ja) (しつぼう, shitsubō)
• Korean: 실망 (ko) (silmang) (失望 (ko))

• Malayalam: നിരാശ (ml), ഇച്ഛാഭംഗം (ml)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skuffelse (nb) m

  Nynorsk: vonbrot (nn) n, vonbrott (nn) n, skuffelse (nn) m

• Polish: rozczarowanie (pl) n, zawód (pl) m
• Portuguese: decepção (pt) f
• Romanian: dezamăgire (ro) f, decepție (ro) f
• Russian: разочарование (ru) (razočarovánije) n
• Scottish Gaelic: briseadh-dùil (gd) m, mealladh-dùil (gd) m
• Serbian: разочарење / razočarenje n
• Slovene: razočaranje n
• Spanish: decepción (es) f
• Telugu: ఆశాభంగం (aaSaabhaMgaM)
• Vietnamese: sự thất vọng (vi) (sự (vi) + 失望 (vi))

circumstance

• Bulgarian: неприятност (bg) (neprijatnost) f
• Dutch: tegenvaller (nl), tegenslag (nl)

• Scottish Gaelic: briseadh-dùil (gd) m, mealladh-dùil (gd) m