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DISAPPOINTED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disappointingly unsuccessful

Example:

his best efforts were thwarted

Synonyms:

defeated; disappointed; discomfited; foiled; frustrated; thwarted

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb disappoint

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 Context examples: 

Men told this to one another, and looked each time to see it happen; but White Fang always disappointed them.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Nor was he disappointed, for that shortsighted woman actually gave him a lump of sugar, tucked him into his bed, and forbade any more promenades till morning.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Are those who have been disappointed in their first choice, whether from the inconstancy of its object, or the perverseness of circumstances, to be equally indifferent during the rest of their lives?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But being only tin, the Woodman was not at all afraid, although he was much disappointed.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Terribly disappointed, you figure that’s that and close the door on that opportunity.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This indeed would be too great a mortification, if I wrote for fame: but as my sole intention was the public good, I cannot be altogether disappointed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Sherlock Holmes was not disappointed in his expectations.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I fear that he was already disappointed in me.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was never more disappointed in any man than Lanyon.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Initially, Troja said, she and her colleagues were disappointed because the data didn't match expectations.

(Astronomers find a golden glow from a distant stellar collision, National Science Foundation)