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Webster 1913 Edition
Disappointed
Disˊap-point′ed
,Adj.
1.
Defeated of expectation or hope; balked;
as, a
. disappointed
person or hope2.
Unprepared; unequipped.
[Obs.]
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhouseled,
Unhouseled,
disappointed
, unaneled. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Disappointed
DISAPPOINTED
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Definition 2024
disappointed
disappointed
English
Adjective
disappointed (comparative more disappointed, superlative most disappointed)
- 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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Synonyms
Translations
defeated of hope or expectation
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Verb
disappointed
- simple past tense and past participle of disappoint