disappoint
pronunciation
How to pronounce disappoint in British English:
UK [ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt]
How to pronounce disappoint in American English:
US [ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt]
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- Verb:
- fail to meet the hopes or expectations of
Word Origin
- disappoint
- disappoint: [15] Disappoint (a borrowing from French désappointer) originally meant ‘remove from a post or office, sack’ – that is, literally, ‘deprive of an appointment’; ‘A monarch … hath power … to appoint or to disappoint the greatest officers’, Thomas Bowes, De La Primaudraye’s French academie 1586. This semantic line has now died out, but parallel with it was a sense ‘fail to keep an appointment’, which appears to be the ancestor of modern English ‘fail to satisfy, frustrate, thwart’.
- disappoint (v.)
- early 15c., "dispossess of appointed office," from Middle French desappointer (14c.) "undo the appointment, remove from office," from des- (see dis-) + appointer "appoint" (see appoint). Modern sense of "to frustrate expectations" (late 15c.) is from secondary meaning of "fail to keep an appointment." Related: Disappointed; disappointing.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Mr singh did not disappoint .
- 2. This morning 's bus ride does not disappoint .
- 3. We don 't want to disappoint our loved ones .
- 4. I am sorry to disappoint your expectations .
- 5. But the move appeared to disappoint investors who had been hoping for more aggressive action .