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Webster 1913 Edition


Disappointed

Disˊap-point′ed

,
Adj.
1.
Defeated of expectation or hope; balked;
as, a
disappointed
person or hope
.
2.
Unprepared; unequipped.
[Obs.]
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhouseled,
disappointed
, unaneled.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Disappointed

DISAPPOINTED

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pp.
Defeated of expectation, hope, desire, or design; frustrated.

Definition 2024


disappointed

disappointed

English

Adjective

disappointed (comparative more disappointed, superlative most disappointed)

  1. Defeated of expectation or hope; let down.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.

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disappointed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of disappoint