DISAPPOINTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disappointed mean? 

• DISAPPOINTED (adjective)
  The adjective DISAPPOINTED has 1 sense:

1. disappointingly unsuccessful

  Familiarity information: DISAPPOINTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISAPPOINTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disappointingly unsuccessful

Synonyms:

defeated; disappointed; discomfited; foiled; frustrated; thwarted

Context example:

his best efforts were thwarted

Similar:

unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)

 Context examples 

Perhaps I might have been better friends with that poor child your mother, even after your sister Betsey Trotwood disappointed me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She will be disappointed if she receives nothing from you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I confess that I was disappointed.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am disappointed in Stanley Hopkins.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She laughed because she was disappointed; and though she liked him for his attentions, and thought them all, whether in friendship, admiration, or playfulness, extremely judicious, they were not winning back her heart.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Whatever my expectation was, it was not disappointed, for there, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mr Elliot was not disappointed in the interest he hoped to raise.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"I am afraid you are disappointed in me, Bessie." I said this laughing: I perceived that Bessie's glance, though it expressed regard, did in no shape denote admiration.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had rather hoped that his wife's views on the stranger would be disappointed; but he soon found out that he had a different story to hear.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I cannot forget that, when she first knew what my father would do for them, she seemed quite disappointed that it was not more.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)