Synonyms for disappoint
Definitions
- v. 1
To prevent (something planned or attempted).
Forms
- Past participle
- disappointed
e.g. disappointed → frustrated, tantalized, defeated, thwarted…
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To disappoint is literally to do away with what was (or was taken to be) appointed; hence the peculiar pain from hopes thus dashed to the ground.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- frustrate Tom secretly attempted to frustrate Mary's plans.
- disconcert I don't mean to disconcert you, but there's a spider in your hair.
- fail See to it that this letter is posted without fail.
By length
- 4 letters
- fail1, dash1, foil1, balk1, bilk1
- 5 letters
- elude2, baulk
- 6 letters
- defeat2, thwart1, baffle2
- 7 letters
- deceive2, mortify3
- 9 letters
- frustrate2, tantalize3, tantalise
- 10 letters
- disconcert3, dissatisfy4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (elude2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- décevoir
- Italiano
- deludere
- Español
- decepcionar