disappointdis‧ap‧point /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/ ●●● W3 verb [intransitive, transitive] 
I hated to disappoint her. Great things were expected of this band, and they didn’t disappoint.2disappoint somebody’s hopes/expectations/plans to prevent something from happening that someone hoped for or expected: The Berlin settlement of 1878 disappointed Russian hopes in the Balkans.
WORD ORIGINdisappoint
Origin:
1400-1500 Old French desapointier, from apointier ‘to arrange’VERB TABLE
disappoint
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | disappoint |
| he, she, it | disappoints | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | disappointed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have disappointed |
| he, she, it | has disappointed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had disappointed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will disappoint |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have disappointed |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am disappointing |
| he, she, it | is disappointing | |
| you, we, they | are disappointing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was disappointing |
| you, we, they | were disappointing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been disappointing |
| he, she, it | has been disappointing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been disappointing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be disappointing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been disappointing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Bolton promised a great performance, and he didn't disappoint.
- I'm sorry to disappoint you, but there aren't any tickets left.
- Of course our kids disappoint us sometimes, but we don't stop loving them.
- The band disappointed thousands of fans by cancelling at the last minute.
- He does not cheat or disappoint.
- I had the feeling I was disappointing him, and it filled me with a dull continuous inner chest pain.
- Many were disappointed in their aspirations.
Longman Language Activatorto make someone feel disappointed
· The band disappointed thousands of fans by cancelling at the last minute.· I'm sorry to disappoint you, but there aren't any tickets left.
to not do what you promised to do for someone, or not behave as well as they expected: · I said I would help them - I can't let them down.let somebody down badly: · Many disabled soldiers feel the government has let them down very badly.
to disappoint someone very badly by doing or telling them something that is the opposite of what they hoped for or what they needed to happen: · Renewed fighting has dashed all hopes of an early settlement.· The family's hopes that their daughter would be found alive were cruelly dashed this morning.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES I was bitterly disappointed.
I was bitterly disappointed.· The concert was cancelled, disappointing hundreds of fans.
· The country’s recent economic performance has been disappointing.
· Sales for the first three months of this year were disappointing.
· It's been a disappointing season for Arsenal.
· He accepted full responsibility for the club’s disappointing start to the season.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Henman will be bitterly disappointed but scarcely surprised.· In this he was bitterly disappointed.· Brearley was bitterly disappointed in Firths' reaction to his innovation.· At the time I was bitterly disappointed.· She only knew she was bitterly disappointed that she and Seb would not be living under the same roof.· If so, they must have been bitterly disappointed.· Black was bitterly disappointed after a disastrous batting collapse threatened to ruin the old boys' Schweppes debut.
· He was deeply disappointed when he peered over the bank.
· I will be extremely disappointed if we don't go on winning.
· This is probably one of the most disappointing days of my life.· She had been most disappointed to find how little political activism there was in the colleges.· In a half-season of torment and tribulation, the most disappointing teams are Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Dallas and Carolina.· Perhaps most disappointing to the Shah was that President Nixon did not attend.· Ohrenberger, the Superintendent, was in many ways the most disappointing one of all.· I would also drop Tufnell, who was most disappointing in the First Test.
· He was terribly disappointed she hadn't flown at him or reacted more strongly.· This is neither shocking nor terribly disappointing.
· Thank you for the interest you have shown in the post and the Department and I hope you are not too disappointed.· I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown.· With the Premiership his main ambition, will not be too disappointed if his team miss out.· There was no reply and he wasn't too disappointed.· She hoped he would not be too disappointed when he found them gone.
· I ran the tests on my system and was very disappointed with the results.· I was very disappointed to find that the family swim session has been canceled this year.· Rushing through it will result in failure, and very disappointing that can be, too.· Frankly, I was very disappointed in the first two places we went to.· Swindon's Chairman Ray Hardman says they're very disappointed.· But we were to be very disappointed.· The resulting pattern was very disappointing, it looked heavy and clumsy.· You'd be very disappointed, even angry, but it would still be beautiful.
· He was deeply disappointed when he peered over the bank.· We were disappointed when we were marked as having correctly classified only 32 solder joints out of the 34.· I remember being disappointed when I woke up next morning to find that the party was over.· She looks a little disappointed when she sees us close up but is too kind to say so.· For a moment they were disappointed when Denise realised it was in fact the same car as one already written down.· He was genuinely disappointed when it dawned on him that the cause of all the fuss was his father.· She was disappointed when he told her he was sorry but it was being used for band practice that day.· I was disappointed when I bit into a banana and it did not melt in my mouth.
NOUN· Socialism could not yet be built and they would inevitably disappoint proletarian expectations.· Yagüe did not disappoint Franco's expectations.
· How did it come about that the Conservatives chose committees whose Reports disappointed their hopes?· Whitman, called a pagan by the church people, shared the note with which Melville ended, one of disappointed hopes.· How could my disappointed hopes help them?· It also gravely disappointed the hopes of the House of Lorraine, the claimants to the throne who represented the Merovingian blood-line.· More than that, state intervention, and especially public ownership of the means of production, had sadly disappointed socialist hopes.· However, the discovery of the neutron and of nuclear forces disappointed those hopes.
· The result was particularly disappointing, given the fact that the magistracy had already been purged by both Charles and James.· The quarterback is the Herschel Walker of his generation, gifted beyond measure, with skills that astonish and results that disappoint.· Initially the results were very disappointing as public expenditure continued to grow.· If we hire pyramid builders, mechanics, or road builders to create an organizational fishnet, the results will be disappointing.· One well tested oil and gas but the results were disappointing.· A federally funded study of educational performance contracts in twenty localities found that the results were universally disappointing.· The result was disappointing on each occasion.· But again, the results have been disappointing.
VERB· Do you feel a bit disappointed that they've come along and perhaps stolen your limelight?· I had the feeling I was disappointing him, and it filled me with a dull continuous inner chest pain.· I often feel that they are disappointed in me.· Frankly, I never used to feel guilty about disappointing inanimate objects.· If refused, they may feel saddened, disappointed, or inconvenienced, but their self-concept isn't shattered.· But now that the scene was taking place, he felt quite disappointed, even angry.· Kinderszenen I felt was somehow a bit disappointing compared to the studied and elegiac reading of Schubert's great B flat Sonata.· Many parents have an especially hard time when their children are feeling sad and disappointed.
· Even this has proved disappointing for its slow development of preventative medicine, but it contributed further to many changes.· Automakers cut production in the second half of 1995 when sales of cars and trucks proved disappointing.
· In November, the three companies reported disappointing third-quarter results.· The chip maker said it expects to report disappointing results for its fiscal third quarter ending Dec. 31.· On Tuesday, the company reported disappointing fourth-quarter earnings of 72 cents a share, compared with estimates of 88 cents.· Technology companies generally were down as several large companies reported disappointing earnings.· In the first few days of trading this year, nervous investors have already punished high-technology companies that have reported disappointing earnings.· Intel had record Nasdaq volume of 55. 9 million shares on July 19, when it similarly reported disappointing profits.· Technology stocks fell a day after Motorola Corp. reported disappointing fourth-quarter earnings.· Chicago: Even though consumer spending surged toward the end of December, retailers reported disappointing holiday sales.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- He was fond of the man who fretted beside him, and a touch impatient with him too.
WORD FAMILYadjectivedisappointeddisappointingnoundisappointmentverbdisappointadverbdisappointingly
1to make someone feel unhappy because something they hoped for did not happen or was not as good as they expected: I hated to disappoint her. Great things were expected of this band, and they didn’t disappoint.2disappoint somebody’s hopes/expectations/plans to prevent something from happening that someone hoped for or expected: The Berlin settlement of 1878 disappointed Russian hopes in the Balkans.