dashing hopes

1. 1.

   an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone

   Synonymsdisappointment

   Broaderfailure

Questions about dashing hopes

What does dashing hopes mean?

dashing hopes means "an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone".

What is another word for dashing hopes?

Close synonyms include disappointment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dashing hopes a common word?

dashing hopes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.