Letdown

Definition: Letdown

Letdown

Noun

1. A feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized; "his hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment".

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

Synonym: Letdown

Crosswords: Letdown

Expressions using "letdown": ADF letdown ♦ automatic direction finder letdown ♦ excess letdown heat exchanger ♦ letdown orifice ♦ tactical instrument letdown. Additional references.

Albanian

rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, drop off, fall, falling, flop, incidence, lapse, precipitation, prolapse, recession, regress, spill, taper, tumble, wane), poshtërim (abasement, abjection, humiliation, ignominy, vituperation), ngadalësim (deceleration, delay, retardation, retardment, slowdown), keqësim (aggravation, decline, degradation, deterioration, exacerbation), diziluzion (disillusion, disillusionment). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتور (coldness, coolness, frigidity, languishment, lethargy, sluggishness, tepidity, torpidity, torpor), ‏هبوط (decline, descent, down, drop, falling, grounding, landing, slip, subsidence, trough), ‏خيبة أمل (anticlimax, disappointing, disappointment, frustration, sell). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скастряне (put down, rocket, set down, trimming, wigging), разочарование (chagrin, disappointment, disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment, frost, sell, sucks), отпор (rebuff, repulse, resistance, set down, stand). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�松 (relax, relaxed, relaxing, unbrace, unbraced). (various references)

Czech

zklamání (anticlimax, breach, chagrin, disappointment, regret, sell). (various references)

Danish

aftapningsstroem af koelemiddel (coolant letdown stream). (various references)

Dutch

taktische daling op de instrumenten (tactical instrument letdown), adf-daling (ADF letdown, automatic direction finder letdown). (various references)

Farsi 

یاس (Despair), نومیدی شکست , تحقیر (Contempt, Diminution, Disdain, Humility, Scorn, Slight). (various references)

French

fatigue. (various references)

German

enttäuschung (anticlimax, betrayal, disappointment, disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment, frustration). (various references)

Greek 

κάθοδος με ραδιοπυξίδα (ADF letdown, automatic direction finder letdown), κάθοδος τακτικού ελιγμού με όργανα (tactical instrument letdown), κάθοδος ADF (ADF letdown, automatic direction finder letdown), ρεύμα εκροής ψυκτικού μέσου (coolant letdown stream), τακτική κάθοδος με όργανα (tactical instrument letdown). (various references)

Hungarian

cserbenhagyás (betrayal). (various references)

Italian

delusione (anticlimax, disappointment, frustration). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

弛み (dullness, slack, slackening). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たるみ (dullness, slack, slackening). (various references)

Pig Latin

etdownlay

Portuguese

queda (chute, cloud-burst, come down, debacle, decay, descent, downfall, fall, fallback, falling, falling over, mucker, overthrow, prolapse, purler, spill, topple, tumble, tumbling, upset), não-intromissão (non-intervention). (various references)

Russian 

ухудшение (aggravation, decadence, decadency, decline, deformation, depravation, deterioration, down grade, impairment), ослабление (attenuation, debilitation, decrement, dilution, diminution, extenuation, labefaction, letup, relaxation, weakening), недостаток (blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, failure, fault, flaw, lack, minus, objection, penury, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vice, want), замедление (deceleration, lag, moderation, retardation, retardment, slowdown, slowing-down), падение (come down, come-down, decline, descent, down, downfall, drop, fall, falling, incidence, lapse, pitch, recession, subsidence, tumble). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razočarenje (chagrin, disappointment, disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment, frustration, shooting down). (various references)

Spanish

aflojamiento (loosening, relaxation, release, releasing, slackening, slacking). (various references)

Swedish

nedgång (declension, decline, depression, descent, down, downfall, drop, ebb, fall, lapse, sag, setting, slowdown, way down), minskning (abatement, curtailment, cut, decline, decrease, decrement, degression, diminution, drop off, fall, lapse, letup, reduction, remission, shrinkage, tail off, tailpiece, wane, wastage), inflygning (approach), besvikelse (bummer, chagrin, come down, disappointment, discomfiture, disenchantment). (various references)

Turkish

irtifa kaybı, hayal kırıklığı (chagrin, comedown, defeat, disappointment, disillusion, disillusionment, failure, frost, non event, nonevent, sell, take in), azalma (abatement, alleviation, attenuation, decline, decrease, decrement, degradation, diminution, drop, falling away, falling off, impairment, let up, reduce, reduction, remission, scale down, shortening, subsidence, wane), alçalma (abasement, degradation, descent, humiliation, self abasement, stooping, subsidence). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "letdown": letdowns. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Letdown" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: laydown, Lutzow, metdown. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: wonted.

-2 letters: dowel, dwelt, endow, lento, loden, lowed, noted, olden, owlet, owned, toled, toned, towed, towel.

-3 letters: delt, dent, dole, dolt, done, dote, down, enol, enow, lend, leno, lent, lewd, lode, lone, lowe, lown, newt, node, noel, note, nowt, owed, tend, toed, told, tole, tone, town, weld, welt, wend, went, wold, wont.

-4 letters: del.

+1 letter: letdowns, meltdown, wontedly.

+2 letters: meltdowns.

+3 letters: tumbledown, unwontedly.

+4 letters: netherworld, stonewalled, thistledown, trickledown.

+5 letters: counterworld, netherworlds, thistledowns, towardliness.

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