disappointment

1. 1.

   a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized

   “his hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment”

   Synonymsletdown

   Broaderdissatisfaction

   Narrowerfrustration
2. 2.

   an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone

   Synonymsdashing hopes

   Broaderfailure

Other forms of disappointment

plural

disappointments·

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 disappointment

What does disappointment mean?

disappointment means "a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disappointment?

disappointment has 4 syllables: dis-ap-point-ment. The stress falls on "point". In IPA it is /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/.

What is another word for disappointment?

Close synonyms include letdown, dashing hopes. 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 disappointment a common word?

disappointment 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 disappointment?

1 word rhymes with disappointment. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.