Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disappointed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Disappointed \Dis`ap*point"ed\, a.
1. Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a
disappointed person or hope.
2. Unprepared; unequipped. [Obs.]
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhouseled,
disappointed, unaneled. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
disappointed
adj : disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and
thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture
Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking
teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted" [syn: {defeated},
{discomfited}, {foiled}, {frustrated}, {thwarted}]
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