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.

Synonyms

• let-down

Related terms

• disappoint

Translations

emotion

• Afrikaans: teleurstelling
• Albanian: zhgënjim (sq)
• Amharic: አለመደሰት (ʾälämädäsät)
• Arabic: خَيْبَة أَمَل‎ f (ḵaybat ʾamal)
• Armenian: հիասթափություն (hy) (hiastʿapʿutʿyun)
• 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
• Finnish: pettymys (fi)
• French: déception (fr) f
• Galician: decepción (gl) f
• German: Enttäuschung (de) f
• 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
• 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: разочарование (razoçarovanïe)
• Khmer: ការខកចិត្ត (kar khakchet)
• Korean: 실망 (ko) (silmang) (失望 (ko))
• Kurdish: dilsarî (ku)

  Central Kurdish: دڵساری‎ (dillsarî)

• Kyrgyz: көңүл калгандык (köñül kalgandık)
• Lao: ຄວາມຜິດຫວັງ (khuām phit wang)

• Lithuanian: nusivylimas
• Macedonian: разочарување n (razočaruvanje)
• Malagasy: fahadisoam-panantenana
• Malay: kekecewaan
• Malayalam: നിരാശ (ml) (nirāśa), ഇച്ഛാഭംഗം (ml) (icchābhaṅgaṃ)
• 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

• 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: разочаре́ње n

  Roman: razočarénje (sh) n

• Sinhalese: බලාපොරොත්තු සුන්වීම (balāporottu sunvīma)
• Slovak: sklamanie
• Slovene: razočaranje n
• Spanish: decepción (es) f, desilusión (es) f, chasco (es)
• Sundanese: kuciwaan
• Swedish: besvikelse (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagkabigo (tl)
• Tamil: ஏமாற்றத்திற்கு (ēmāṟṟattiṟku)
• Telugu: ఆశాభంగం (āśābhaṅgaṃ)
• 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

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
• Spanish: varapalo
• Welsh: siom f