1 to make sb feel sad because sth that they hope for or expect to happen does not happen or is not as good as they hoped:
[VN] Her decision to cancel the concert is bound to disappoint her fans. * I hate to disappoint you, but I'm just not interested. * The movie had disappointed her (= it wasn't as good as she had expected). * [V] His latest novel does not disappoint. [also VNthat]
2 [VN] to prevent sth that sb hopes for from becoming a reality:
The new government had soon disappointed the hopes of many of its supporters.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for disappoint is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is disappoint a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, disappoint is tagged as verb.
Does disappoint appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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