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[ dis-uh-poin-ting ] / ˌdɪs əˈpɔɪn tɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR disappointing ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivefailing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage. Origin of disappointingFirst recorded in 1520–30; disappoint + -ing2 OTHER WORDS FROM disappointingdis·ap·point·ing·ly, adverbun·dis·ap·point·ing, adjectiveWords nearby disappointingdisappear, disappearance, disapplication, disappoint, disappointed, disappointing, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, disapprove, disarm Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for disappointingTwo years later, further tests were done, but this time to a disappointing conclusion. The Chinese Town Descended From Romans?|Nina Strochlic|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST On the other hand, what broken and disappointing ground it is. A Reminder: Our Justices are Politicians in Robes|Jedediah Purdy|November 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST No matter how constitutionally suspect, how costly, how slapdash, or how disappointing a grand policy might be, well, they tried. Our Lame Cult of the Presidency|James Poulos|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST In the end he was left with a disappointing product that bore little of his creative fingerprint. David Fincher’s Backseat Feminism|Teo Bugbee|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is disappointing and, frankly, frightening that Thompson walked away from his repugnant Sea World excursion scot-free. Texas Court Says Upskirt Photos Are Art|Emily Shire|September 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST He hoped that they expected him; he would smack his lips over the vicious joy of disappointing them. A Yankee from the West|Opie Read Frus′trative, tending to frustrate; Frus′tratory, disappointing. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)|Various For Kitty, too, had just passed through a humiliating and disappointing experience. When A Man's A Man|Harold Bell Wright A first glance is disappointing, but the memories of the place are compensation enough. In the Border Country|W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett To tell the truth, the transcendantly beautiful queen of the nebulæ is rather a disappointing object in an ordi65nary telescope. Half-hours with the Telescope|Richard A. Proctor
British Dictionary definitions for disappointing
adjectivefailing to meet one's expectations, hopes, desires, or standards Derived forms of disappointingdisappointingly, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to disappointingdistasteful, discouraging, depressing, unpleasant, mediocre, disheartening, unsatisfying, disconcerting, frustrating, bitter, failing, displeasing, lame, disagreeable, inadequate, ineffective, inferior, insufficient, unhappy, uninteresting |