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# disappoint

«disappoint» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make someone sad because something was not as good as…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (disappoint, disappoints, disappointed, disappointing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make someone sad because something was not as good as they hoped, or did not happen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappoint/#m1)

2) To let someone down by not doing what they expected. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappoint/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A very common everyday word for feelings. Adjectives: disappointed (how you feel) and disappointing (what made you feel it). Phrases: «disappointed in someone», «disappointed with something», «I'm sorry to disappoint you». In stories it shows that hopes were not met.

### examples

- The film disappointed me — the book was better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappoint/#x1)
- I don't want to disappoint my team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappoint/#x2)
- We were disappointed when the trip was cancelled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappoint/#x3)
- The weather was disappointing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappoint/#x4)
- Alice was disappointed to find the little door locked again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappoint/#x5)
- Sorry to disappoint you, but there's no cake left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappoint/#x6)
- His test score didn't disappoint his mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappoint/#x7)
- Toad disappointed his friends again and again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappoint/#x8)

### note

Spelling trap: one s, two p's — dis-ap-point. I am disappointED (my feeling); the match was disappointING (the thing). Noun: disappointment.

### In the corpora

- [The Rat gives in, because he can't bear to disappoint his friends.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/13/)
- [He hated disappointing people, and he was fond of the Mole».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/38/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disappoint» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappoint/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.