disappointed

Etymology

adj

  1. Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down.
    After all his anticipation, the trip left him deeply disappointed.
    1. Having had a marriage proposal rejected.
      Scattered here and there amongst the steerage passengers were men of a different class: men whose previous lives had not fitted them for the hard and uncertain lot that certainly lay before them - pale-faced boys from Melbourne shops; middle-aged and disappointed men; one and all hoping for a turn of luck in the lottery of the newly-discovered goldfield. 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 141
  2. Expressing or indicating disappointment.
    a disappointed tone / face / silence

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of disappoint

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