disappointed

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪd/
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Adjective

disappointed (comparative more disappointed, superlative most disappointed)

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.
  - 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 141:
    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.
Expressing or indicating disappointment.
a disappointed tone / face / silence

Usage notes

The following examples illustrate common usage:

She was disappointed in you. (i.e. Your actions, attitude, etc. disappointed her.)
She was disappointed with her performance.
She was disappointed at being left out.
She was disappointed to be left out.
She was disappointed that you didn’t go to her party.

Synonyms

discomfited
foiled
frustrated
thwarted

Derived terms

disappointedly
disappointedness

Translations

defeated of hope or expectation

Afrikaans: teleurgesteld
Albanian: i zhgënjyer, deshpruar
Arabic: خَائِب الأَمَل‎ (ḵāʾib al-ʾamal)
Armenian: հիասթափված (hiastʿapʿvac)
Azerbaijani: məyus (az)
Basque: etsite
Belarusian: расчарава́ны (rasčaravány)
Bulgarian: разочаро́ван (bg) (razočaróvan)
Burmese: စိတ်ပျက် (my) (citpyak)
Catalan: decebut
Cebuano: nasagmuyo
Chinese:
Mandarin: 敗興／败兴 (zh) (bàixìng), 失望 (zh) (shīwàng)
Czech: rozčarovaný, zklamaný (cs)
Danish: skuffet, skuffede
Dutch: teleurgesteld (nl)
Esperanto: seniluziigita
Finnish: pettynyt (fi)
French: déçu (fr)
Galician: decepcionado
Georgian: იმედგაცრუებული (imedgacruebuli)
German: enttäuscht (de)
Greek: απογοητευμένος (el) (apogoïtevménos)
Gujarati: નિરાશ (nirāś)
Hausa: masanan basu ji dadin
Hebrew: מאוכזב‎ (meukhzav)
Hindi: निराश (hi) (nirāś)
Hungarian: csalódott (hu)
Icelandic: vonsvikinn (is), vonbrigðum
Igbo: emechu ihu
Indonesian: kecewa (id)
Irish: díomách, díomá a bheith ort (to be disappointed)
Italian: deluso (it) m
Japanese: 失望した (ja) (しつぼうした, shitsubō shita)
Javanese: kuciwa (jv)
Kazakh: көңілі қалған (köñılı qalğan), разочаровался (razoçarovalsä)
Khmer: ខកចិត្ត (khakchet)
Korean: 실망하다 (ko) (silmanghada)
Lao: ຜິດຫວັງ (phit wang)
Latin: dēstitūtus (la)
Latvian: vīlušies, vīlies
Lithuanian: nusivylusi, nusivylęs
Luxembourgish: enttäuscht
Macedonian: разочаран (razočaran)
Malagasy: diso fanantenana
Malay: kecewa
Malayalam: നിരാശരാണ് (nirāśarāṇŭ), നിരാശ (ml) (nirāśa)
Maltese: diżappuntat
Maori: ngere (due to personal failure), matekiri, pāpōuri
Marathi: निराश (nirāś)
Mongolian: урам хугарсан (uram xugarsan)
Nepali: निराश (nirāś)
Norman: dêchu, dêmîns, d'sappointé
Norwegian: skuffet
Nynorsk: vonbroten, vonsviken
Plautdietsch: entstalt
Polish: rozczarowany (pl), zawiedziony (pl)
Portuguese: decepcionado, desapontado
Punjabi: ਨਿਰਾਸ਼ (nirāś)
Romanian: dezamăgit (ro), decepționat (ro)
Russian: разочаро́ванный (ru) m (razočaróvannyj)
Serbo-Croatian: razočaran (sh), разочаран
Sinhalese: බලාපොරොත්තු සුන් (balāporottu sun)
Slovak: sklamaný
Slovene: razočaran (sl), razočarani
Spanish: decepcionado (es)
Sundanese: kuciwa (su), kucewa
Swedish: besviken (sv)
Tagalog: bigo (tl)
Tamil: ஏமாற்றம் (ta) (ēmāṟṟam)
Thai: ผิดหวัง (th) (pìt-wǎng)
Turkish: hayal kırıklığına uğramış
Ukrainian: розчаро́ваний (rozčaróvanyj)
Uzbek: hafsalasi pir boʻldi
Vietnamese: thất vọng (vi) (失望)
Welsh: siomedig (cy)
West Frisian: teloarsteld, teleurgesteld
Yiddish: דיסאַפּויניד‎ (disapoynid)
Zulu: badumazeke

Verb

disappointed

simple past tense and past participle of disappoint