Disappoint

Definition: Disappoint

Disappoint

Verb

1. Fail to meet the hopes or expectations of.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "disappoint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Disappoint \Dis`ap*point"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Disapointed; present participle verb or noun Disappointing.]. (references)

Synonym: Disappoint

Disappointment

Disappoint; frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure); 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).

Discontent

Cause discontent; Noun: dissatisfy, disappoint, mortify, put out, disconcert; cut up; dishearten.

Crosswords: Disappoint

I hate to disappoint you but my rubber lips are immune to your charms (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Thankily-dank, Mayor, I shan't disappoint. Har ye, har ye (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Valmont you disappoint me, that's what's keeping you here (Valmont; writing credit: Choderlos de Laclos; Jean-Claude Carrière)

I fully expect to meet you at the pearly gates little thief, and don't you dare disappoint me. (Ladyhawke; writing credit: Edward Khmara)

I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders dependent upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself slightly killed (North by Northwest; writing credit: Ernest Lehman)

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Music

• I Can Only Disappoint U Pt.1 [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

• So Sorry to Disappoint You (reference)

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Martyrs to duty. Long John certainly hated to disappoint folks -- but when measles ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

Indonesia

U.S. firms also need to be sensitive to the difficulty some Indonesians have in declaring bad news to someone; if your agent knows a tender is "cooked" against you, he may be reluctant to disappoint you with the bad news in advance. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

zhgënjej (balk, chagrin, delude, disillusion), i heq (deprive, detract, displume, dispossess, divest, reave, reive), hidhëroj (afflict, aggrieve, chagrin, deject, discompose, distress, embitter, grieve, make miserable, make trouble), gaboj (betray, cheat, deceive, delude, err, fraud, lapse, let down, make a mistake, mistake, seduce, swindle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خيب الأمل (disillusion, dissatisfy, let down, miss fire), ‏أحبط (anticipate, balk, block, check, damp, defeat, discomfit, disconcert, foil, forestall, frustrate, nullify, ruin, scotch, scuttle, torpedo). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разочаровам (disenchant, disillusion, disillusionize, fail, frustrate, let down), осуетявам (abort, baffle, foil, frustrate, mock, pour cold water on, scatter, scotch, short circuit, sink, spoil, wash out). (various references)

Chinese 

辜� (fail to live up to, let down), 使失望 , 失望 (Despondent, Disappointed, Disappointing, Disappointment, frustration). (various references)

Czech

zklamat (belie, disillusion, fail, lapse), rozèarovat (disillusion, disillusionize). (various references)

Danish

skuffe (drawer, set straight). (various references)

Dutch

tegenvallen, ontgoochelen. (various references)

Esperanto

seniluziigi (set straight), elrevigi. (various references)

Farsi 

محروم کردن (Bereave, Deprive, Devest, Dispossess, Divest, Evacuate, Exclude, Geld), مایوس کردن , ناکام کردن , ناامیدکردن . (various references)

French

désappointer, décevoir, déceptionnons, déceptionner, tromper dans ses espoirs, tromper. (various references)

Frisian

teloarstelle (set straight). (various references)

German

enttäuschen (belie, betray, deflate, disenchant, fail, let down, set straight, to disappoint). (various references)

Greek 

απογοητεύω (frustrate, let down). (various references)

Hebrew 

לאכזב (dissatisfy, let down, miss fire), ל�"כזיב. (various references)

Hungarian

kiábrándít (disabuse, disenchant, disillusion, disillusionize, to disappoint, to disenchant, to disillusion, to dismay), csalódást okoz (to balk, to disappoint). (various references)

Icelandic

valda vonbrigðum (set straight). (various references)

Indonesian

mengecewakan (disenchant). (various references)

Italian

deludere (blight, deceive, delude, frustrate). (various references)

Korean 

낙망하십시�". (various references)

Manx

molley (baffle, bafflement, beguile, bluff, cajole, captivate, cheering, deceit, deceive, deception, disappointment, foil, fool, impose, imposition, trick). (various references)

Norwegian

skuffe (set straight). (various references)

Papiamen

desilushoná (set straight), desepshoná (set straight), desapuntá (set straight). (various references)

Pig Latin

isappointday.(various references)

Portuguese

desiludir (deceive, disabuse, disillusion, disillusionize, frustrate, let down, set straight, undeceive). (various references)

Romanian

deziluziona (disillusion, disillusionize, falsify). (various references)

Russian 

разочаровывать (disenchant, disillusion, let down). (various references)

Scottish

meall (a lump, beguile, cheat, deceive, defraud, entice, lump, mass, mound). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razočarati (disillusion, fail, let down). (various references)

Spanish

desilusionar (disabuse, disillusion, disillusionize, let down), desencantar (disenchant), defraudar esperanzas, defraudar creencias, decepcionar (fail, let down, string along), decepcionado (disappointed, disappoints, jaundiced). (various references)

Swedish

göra besviken (let down, set straight), svika (belie, betray, deceive, desert, fail, falsify, frustrate, jilt, let down). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้ผิ�"หวัง (betray, let down). (various references)

Turkish

düş kırıklığına uğratmak (disenchant, disillusion), umudunu boşa çıkarmak, hayal kırıklığına uğratmak (chagrin, discourage, frustrate, let down), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), boşa çıkarmak (baffle, blight, cancel, defeat, fail, frustrate, invalidate, prick the bubble, puncture, shoot down), altüst etmek (agitate, bedevil, clutter, clutter up, depolarise, disorganize, disturb, knock galley-west, make havoc of, overset, overturn, play havoc with, play the deuce with, ransack, run upside down, screw up, turn about, turn around, turn under, Upend, upset, upturn, work havoc), ümidini boşa çıkarmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

руйнувати (attack, baffle, blight, cast down, confound, demolish, destroy, devour, dilapidate, explode, havoc, ruin, shake down, wrack, wreck), розчаровувати (deceive, disillusion, disillusionize, slip up). (various references)

Welsh

siomi (baffle, balk, belie, deceive, thwart). (various references)

destituant, destituens, destituerunt, destituta, destitutae, destitutam, fallentes, fallere, fallit, fallitur, falsa, falsae, falsam, falsas, falsi, falsis, falso, falsos, falsum, falsus, fefellit, frustro, frustro, frustror, phallet. (various references)

desappointer. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "disappoint": disappointed, disappointedly, disappointing, disappointingly, disappointment, disappointments, disappoints. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Disappoint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desapoint, disapoint, disappint, disappiont, disappointe, disappoiont, dispoint, dissapoint, dissappoint. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: appoints, oppidans, pintados, postpaid, satinpod.

-3 letters: appoint, distain, dopants, oppidan, pandits, pianist, pintado, sandpit, sinopia, topspin.

-4 letters: adonis, adopts, danios, dopant, idiots, iodins, isatin, paints, pandit, pantos, papist, patins, patios, patois, pianos, pinots, pintas, pintos, pipits, piston, pitons, poinds, points, postin, ptisan, spinto.

-5 letters: adios, adits, adopt, antis, apods, danio, datos, dints, dipso, ditas.

+1 letter: disappoints.

+2 letters: disappointed.

+3 letters: disappointing, pentaploidies.

+4 letters: aminopeptidase, disappointedly, disappointment, disapprobation, propagandistic.

+5 letters: aminopeptidases, disappointingly, disappointments, disapprobations, disproportional, philanthropoids.