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Noun
disappointment countable and uncountable (plural disappointments)
- uncountable The emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met.
#:Choking back his disappointment after his own team's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa, he said: "I've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side." — Today, News Group Newspapers Ltd, 1992
- countable A circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met.
#:As the disappointments crowded in — the economy, Rhodesia, strife within the trade-union movement — w:Harold Wilson|Wilson tried the expedient of a semi-formal inner Cabinet, or Parliamentary Committee, as he misleadingly liked to call it. — Cabinet, Hennessy, Peter, Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1990
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Czech: zklamánà n
Finnish: pettymys
French: déception
German: Enttäuschung f
Hebrew: ����� (akhzava) f
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Polish: rozczarowanie n, zawód m
Russian: �азо�а�ование (razo�arovánije) n
Slovene: razo�aranje n
Spanish: decepción f
Telugu: à°�శాà°à°�à°�à°� (aaSaabhaMgaM)
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