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# disappointing

«disappointing» in Mova's school dictionary: **not as good as you hoped or expected, so it makes you…** — 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

adjective (disappointing, more disappointing, most disappointing); present participle of disappoint (disappoint, disappoints, disappointed, disappointing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Disappointing means not as good as you hoped or expected, so it makes you feel let down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappointing/#m1)

2) As a verb form, disappointing means letting someone down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappointing/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: a disappointing result, film or meal. In stories it shows a character's feelings falling. Phrases: a disappointing result, it is disappointing that, rather disappointing.

### examples

- The match ended in a disappointing draw. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappointing/#x1)
- The weather was disappointing, so we stayed indoors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappointing/#x2)
- It is disappointing that the trip was cancelled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappointing/#x3)
- The film was a bit disappointing after all the adverts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappointing/#x4)
- Her test score was disappointing, but she will try again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappointing/#x5)
- I hate disappointing my parents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappointing/#x6)
- ‘Ah!’ cried the Princess, ‘I am well punished for disappointing the King and Queen, and running away with this Ambassador about whom I knew nothing.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappointing/#x7)

### note

Trap: "disappointing" describes the thing that causes the feeling; "disappointed" describes the person who feels it. The film was disappointing; I was disappointed. Spelling: one s, two p (disappoint). Noun: disappointment.

### In the corpora

- [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/)
- ["A damp squib" (UK) means a disappointing failure, like a firework that does not go off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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