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say it: dis-uh-POYNT
disappoint is a verb meaning "fail to meet the hopes or expectations of". It is pronounced /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/ — dis-uh-POYNT. It carries one recorded sense.
fail to meet the hopes or expectations of
“Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for disappoint come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.