disappointed

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪd/
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Adjective

disappointed (comparative more disappointed, superlative most disappointed)

  1. Defeated of expectation or hope; let down.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.

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disappointed

  1. simple past and past participle of disappoint