disappoint

1. 1.

   fail to meet the hopes or expectations of

   “Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage”

   Synonymslet down

   Broaderthwart

   Narrowerfailfall shortdisenchant

Other forms of disappoint

past tense

disappointed·

present participle

disappointing·

third person

disappoints·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disappoint

What does disappoint mean?

disappoint means "fail to meet the hopes or expectations of".

How many syllables are in disappoint?

disappoint has 3 syllables: dis-ap-point. The stress falls on "point". In IPA it is /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/.

What is another word for disappoint?

Close synonyms include let down. 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 disappoint a common word?

disappoint is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with disappoint?

13 words rhyme with disappoint. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.