1 [U] sadness because sth has not happened or been as good, successful, etc. as you expected or hoped:
Book early for the show to avoid disappointment. * To our great disappointment, it rained every day of the trip. * He found it difficult to hide his disappointment when she didn't arrive.
2 [C] ~ (to sb) a person or thing that is disappointing:
a bitter / major disappointment * That new restaurant was a big disappointment. * I always felt I was a disappointment to my father. * He's suffered a whole string of disappointments this week.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for disappointment is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is disappointment a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, disappointment is tagged as noun.
Does disappointment appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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