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Disappoint [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To defeat of expectation, wish, hope, desire or intention; to frustrate; to balk; to hinder from the possession or enjoyment of that which was intended, desired, hoped or expected. We say, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions or expectations are disappointed. A bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil The man promised me a visit, by he disappointed me.

2. Without counsel purposes are disappointed. Proverbs 15:22 .

3. To frustrate; to prevent an effect intended.

4. The retiring foe shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow.

Disappoint [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil.

2. To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result.

Disappointed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Defeated of expectation, hope, desire, or design; frustrated.

Disappointed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.

2. Unprepared; unequipped.

Disappointing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Defeating of expectation, hope, desire or purpose; frustrating.

Disappointing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Disappointment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Defeat or failure of expectation, hope, wish, desire or intention; miscarriage of design or plan.

2. We are apt to complain of the disappointment of our hopes and schemes, but disappointments often prove blessings and save us from calamity or ruin.

Disappointment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.

2. That which disappoints.

Disappointment Roget’s Thesaurus §509

N. disappointment, blighted hope, balk, blow, anticlimax, slip 'twixt cup and lip, nonfulfillment of one's hopes, sad disappointment, bitter disappointment, trick of fortune, afterclap, false expectation, vain expectation, miscalculation, fool's paradise, much cry and little wool

V. be disappointed, look blank, look blue, look aghast, stand aghast, find to one's cost, laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth, find one a false prophet, not realize one's hope, not realize one's expectation, disappoint, frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure) 732, crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage, balk, jilt, bilk, play one false, play a trick, dash the cup from the lips, tantalize, dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish) 870

Adj. disappointed, disconcerted, aghast, disgruntled, out of one's reckoning

Phr. the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse, parturiunt montes, nascitur ridiculus mus, diis aliter visum, the bubble burst, one's countenance falling

Discontent Roget’s Thesaurus §832

N. discontent, discontentment, dissatisfaction, dissent, disappointment, mortification, cold comfort, regret, repining, taking on, heart-burning, heart-grief, querulousness, hypercriticism, inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness, worry, concern, fear, malcontent, grumbler, growler, croaker, dissident, dissenter, laudator temporis acti, censurer, complainer, fault-finder, murmerer, cave of adullam, indignation meeting, "winter of our discontent", "with what i most enjoy contented least"

V. be discontented, quarrel with one's bread and butter, repine, regret, wish one at the bottom of the red sea, take on, take to heart, shrug the shoulders, make a wry face, pull a long face, knit one's brows, look blue, look black, look black as thunder, look blank, look glum, take in bad part, take ill, fret, chafe, make a piece of work, grumble, croak, lament, cause discontent, dissatisfy, disappoint, mortify, put out, disconcert, cut up, dishearten

Adj. discontented, dissatisfied, unsatisfied, ungratified, dissident, dissentient, malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical, repining, regretful, down in the mouth, in high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor, glum, sulky, sour as a crab, soured, sore, out of humor, out of temper, disappointing, unsatisfactory, frustrated (failure) 732

Int. so much the worse, phr, that won't do, that will never do, it will never do, curtae nescio quid semper abest rei, ne jupiter quidem omnibus placet, "poor in abundance, famished at a feast"