Disappointment
WordNet
noun
(1) An act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone
(2) A feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized
"His hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment"
WiktionaryText
Noun
disappointment and (plural disappointments)
- The emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met.
- Choking back his disappointment after his own team's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa, he said: "I've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side." — Today, News Group Newspapers Ltd, 1992
- A circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met.
- As the disappointments crowded in — the economy, Rhodesia, strife within the trade-union movement — Wilson tried the expedient of a semi-formal inner Cabinet, or Parliamentary Committee, as he misleadingly liked to call it. — Cabinet, Hennessy, Peter, Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1990