英语词汇“disappoint”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

disappointdisappoint /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/ ●●○ verb [intransitive, transitive]

ETYMOLOGYdisappoint

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

1to make someone feel unhappy because something he or she hoped for does not happen or is not as good as expected: He didn’t want to disappoint his parents. New York is a city that never disappoints.2disappoint somebody’s hopes/plans/expectations formal to fail to make something happen, or to prevent something from happening, that someone hoped for or expected: A return to the old system would disappoint all our hopes. [Origin: 1400–1500 Old French desapointier, from apointier to arrange]