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DISAPPOINTING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not up to expectations
Example:
a disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising
Synonyms:
disappointing; dissatisfactory; unsatisfying
Classified under:
Similar:
unsatisfactory (not giving satisfaction)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb disappoint
Context examples:
His behaviour to myself has been scandalous; but I verily believe I could forgive him anything and everything, rather than his disappointing the hopes and disgracing the memory of his father.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The power of disappointing them, it was true, must always be hers.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Emma thanked him, but could not allow of his disappointing his friend on their account; her father was sure of his rubber.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The pigeon-pie was not bad, but it was a delusive pie: the crust being like a disappointing head, phrenologically speaking: full of lumps and bumps, with nothing particular underneath.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Chesterton, Histon, Waterbeach, and Oakington have each been explored, and have each proved disappointing.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You see what is heading our way before anyone else does, but with so many planets in Capricorn, your twelfth house of privacy and things behind the scenes, it may be disappointing to hear you should shelve some of your biggest ideas for now.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Miss Bingley, however, was incapable of disappointing Mr. Darcy in anything, and persevered therefore in requiring an explanation of his two motives.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
