disappointment

English

Etymology

disappoint +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/

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Noun

disappointment (countable and uncountable, plural disappointments)

1. (uncountable) A feeling of sadness or frustration when a strongly held expectation is not met.
   • 1992, Today, News Group Newspapers Ltd

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

     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.

3. (countable) That which causes feelings of disappointment.

   Our trip to California was a disappointment.

   You are a disappointment.

Related terms

• disappoint

Translations

emotion

• Arabic: خَيْبَة أَمَل‎‎ f (ḵaybat ʾamal)
• Armenian: հիասթափություն (hy) (hiastʿapʿutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: разочарова́ние (bg) n (razočarovánie)
• Catalan: decepció f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 失望 (zh) (shīwàng)

• Czech: zklamání (cs) n
• Danish: skuffelse c
• Dutch: teleurstelling (nl) f
• Esperanto: malkontentigo, elreviĝo
• Finnish: pettymys (fi)
• French: déception (fr) f
• Galician: decepción (gl) f
• German: Enttäuschung (de) f
• Greek: απογοήτευση (el) f (apogoḯtefsi)
• Hebrew: אכזבה‎‎ (he) f (akhzava)
• Hungarian: csalódás (hu)
• Icelandic: vonbrigði n pl
• Ido: decepto
• Irish: díomá f
• Italian: delusione (it) f, disappunto (it) m
• Japanese: 失望 (ja) (しつぼう, shitsubō)
• Korean: 실망 (ko) (silmang) (失望 (ko))
• Kurdish: dilsarî (ku)

  Central Kurdish: دڵساری‎‎ (diłsarî)

• Macedonian: разочарување n (razočaruvanje)
• Malayalam: നിരാശ (ml) (nirāśa), ഇച്ഛാഭംഗം (ml) (icchābhaṅgaṃ)
• Maori: ketekete, pāpōuri
• Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭥𐭫𐭩𐭯𐭩𐭤‎‎ (ōrēbīh)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skuffelse m

  Nynorsk: vonbrot n, vonbrott n, skuffelse m

• Persian: دلسردی‎‎ (fa) (delsardī)
• 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: разочарење n

  Roman: razočarenje (sh) n

• Slovene: razočaranje n
• Spanish: decepción (es) f, desilusión (es) f, chasco (es)
• Swedish: besvikelse (sv) c
• Telugu: ఆశాభంగం (āśābhaṅgaṃ)
• Vietnamese: sự thất vọng (sự 失望)
• Welsh: siom f

circumstance

• Bulgarian: неприя́тност (bg) f (neprijátnost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 失望 (zh) (shīwàng)

• Dutch: tegenvaller (nl), tegenslag (nl)
• Finnish: pettymys (fi)

• Irish: ábhar díomá m
• Russian: неприя́тность (ru) f (neprijátnostʹ), разочарова́ние (ru) n (razočarovánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: briseadh-dùil m, mealladh-dùil m
• Welsh: siom f