disappointed
adjUS /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/ · /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪd/
1
Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down.
- After all his anticipation, the trip left him deeply disappointed.
- If they came to hear me beg, they will be disappointed.2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, spoken by Thel 'Vadamee (Keith David), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Cairo Station:
2
Having had a marriage proposal rejected.
- 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.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 141:
3
Expressing or indicating disappointment.
- a disappointed tone / face / silence
- Synonyms
- discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted
- Derived terms
- disappointedly, disappointedness, undisappointed