To our great disappointment, the game was called off.
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Disappointment
//ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt//
Synonyms for "disappointment" (98 found)
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Related words (49)
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9 entriesTranslations
120 translations across 83 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- teleurstelling noun (emotion)
Albanian
1 entries- zhgënjim noun (emotion)
Amharic
1 entries- አለመደሰት noun (emotion)
Arabic
1 entries- خَيْبَة أَمَل noun (emotion)
Armenian
1 entries- հիասթափություն noun (emotion)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- xəyal qırıqlığı noun (emotion)
Belarusian
1 entries- расчарава́нне noun (emotion)
Bulgarian
2 entries- разочарова́ние noun (emotion)
- разочарова́ние noun (circumstance)
Burmese
1 entries- စိတ်ပျက်စရာ noun (emotion)
Catalan
1 entries- decepció noun (emotion)
Cebuano
1 entries- kahigawad noun (emotion)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- دڵساری noun (emotion)
Chichewa
1 entries- kukhumudwa noun (emotion)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 失望 noun (emotion)
- 失望 noun (circumstance)
Czech
1 entries- zklamání noun (emotion)
Danish
1 entries- skuffelse noun (emotion)
Dutch
3 entries- tegenslag noun (circumstance)
- tegenvaller noun (circumstance)
- teleurstelling noun (emotion)
Esperanto
3 entries- elreviĝo noun (emotion)
- malkontentigo noun (emotion)
- senreviĝo noun (emotion)
Estonian
1 entries- pettumus noun (emotion)
Finnish
2 entries- pettymys noun (emotion)
- pettymys noun (circumstance)
French
1 entries- déception noun (emotion)
Galician
1 entries- decepción noun (emotion)
German
4 entries- Enttäuschung noun (emotion)
- Fehlschlag noun (circumstance)
- Misserfolg noun (circumstance)
- Reinfall noun (cause, letdown)
Greek
1 entries- απογοήτευση noun (emotion)
Gujarati
1 entries- નિરાશા noun (emotion)
Hebrew
1 entries- אכזבה noun (emotion)
Hindi
3 entries- आशाभंग noun (emotion)
- निराशा noun (emotion)
- मायूसी noun (emotion)
Hungarian
1 entries- csalódás noun (emotion)
Icelandic
1 entries- vonbrigði noun (emotion)
Ido
1 entries- decepto noun (emotion)
Igbo
1 entries- ndakpọ olileanya noun (emotion)
Indonesian
1 entries- kekecewaan noun (emotion)
Irish
2 entries- díomá noun (emotion)
- ábhar díomá noun (circumstance)
Italian
2 entries- delusione noun (emotion)
- disappunto noun (emotion)
Japanese
1 entries- 失望 noun (emotion)
Jeju
1 entries- 실망 noun (emotion)
Kannada
1 entries- ನಿರಾಶೆ noun (emotion)
Kazakh
1 entries- түңілу noun (emotion)
Khmer
1 entries- ការខកចិត្ត noun (emotion)
Korean
1 entries- 실망 noun (emotion)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- көңүл калгандык noun (emotion)
Lao
1 entries- ຄວາມຜິດຫວັງ noun (emotion)
Lithuanian
1 entries- nusivylimas noun (emotion)
Macedonian
1 entries- разочарување noun (emotion)
Malagasy
1 entries- fahadisoam-panantenana noun (emotion)
Malay
1 entries- kekecewaan noun (emotion)
Malayalam
2 entries- ഇച്ഛാഭംഗം noun (emotion)
- നിരാശ noun (emotion)
Maltese
1 entries- diżappunt noun (emotion)
Marathi
1 entries- निराशा noun (emotion)
Middle Persian
1 entries- 𐭠𐭥𐭫𐭩𐭯𐭩𐭤 noun (emotion)
Māori
2 entries- ketekete noun (emotion)
- pāpōuri noun (emotion)
Nepali
1 entries- निराशा noun (emotion)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- dilsarî noun (emotion)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- skuffelse noun (emotion)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- skuffelse noun (emotion)
- vonbrot noun (emotion)
- vonbrott noun (emotion)
Oromo
1 entries- mufannaa noun (emotion)
Persian
1 entries- دلسردی noun (emotion)
Polish
2 entries- rozczarowanie noun (emotion)
- zawód noun (emotion)
Portuguese
1 entries- decepção noun (emotion)
Romanian
2 entries- decepție noun (emotion)
- dezamăgire noun (emotion)
Russian
3 entries- неприя́тность noun (circumstance)
- разочарова́ние noun (emotion)
- разочарова́ние noun (circumstance)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- briseadh-dùil noun (emotion)
- briseadh-dùil noun (circumstance)
- mealladh-dùil noun (emotion)
- mealladh-dùil noun (circumstance)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- razočarénje noun (emotion)
- разочаре́ње noun (emotion)
Sinhalese
1 entries- බලාපොරොත්තු සුන්වීම noun (emotion)
Slovak
1 entries- sklamanie noun (emotion)
Slovene
1 entries- razočaranje noun (emotion)
Spanish
4 entries- ahueve noun (emotion)
- chasco noun (cause, letdown)
- decepción noun (emotion)
- decepción noun (circumstance)
Sundanese
1 entries- kuciwaan noun (emotion)
Swedish
1 entries- besvikelse noun (emotion)
Tagalog
1 entries- pagkabigo noun (emotion)
Tamil
1 entries- ஏமாற்றம் noun (emotion)
Telugu
1 entries- ఆశాభంగం noun (emotion)
Thai
1 entries- ความผิดหวัง noun (emotion)
Turkish
1 entries- hayal kırıklığı noun (emotion)
Ukrainian
1 entries- розчарува́ння noun (emotion)
Uzbek
1 entries- umidsizlik noun (emotion)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sự thất vọng noun (emotion)
Welsh
2 entries- siom noun (emotion)
- siom noun (circumstance)
West-Frisian
1 entries- teloarstelling noun (emotion)
Xhosa
1 entries- ukuphoxeka noun (emotion)
Yiddish
1 entries- אַנטוישונג noun (emotion)
Yoruba
1 entries- ìjánírọ́ noun (emotion)
Zulu
1 entries- ukudumala noun (emotion)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
To our disappointment, our team lost the game.
Source: tatoeba (23527)
Such was Linda's disappointment that she burst into tears.
Source: tatoeba (29598)
To Bob's disappointment, several of those who had promised to help him afterwards backed out.
Source: tatoeba (33263)
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