| 单词 | disappointing |
| 释义 | disappointing (once / 1115 pages) adj Something that's disappointing isn't what you'd hoped for. A disappointing baseball season usually means that your favorite team lost a lot of games. When the candidate you voted for loses, it's a disappointing election result, and a disappointing grade in your math class is lower than what you hoped or expected it would be. Disappointing comes from the verb disappoint, which means "frustrate expectations," but had an earlier definition of "remove from appointed office." The modern sense of disappoint and disappointing comes from "fail to keep an appointment." WORD FAMILYdisappointing: disappointingly+/disappoint: disappointed, disappointing, disappointment, disappoints/disappointed: disappointedly/disappointment: disappointments USAGE EXAMPLES“It’s disappointing, no question about it,” Gruden said after the loss. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) We will put together a gallery of the most disappointing tomorrow. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Put another way, most news and information that dominates our culture is disappointing enough the first time around. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) adj not up to expectations a disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising Syn dissatisfactory, unsatisfying unsatisfactory not giving satisfaction |
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