Word Meanings - DISAPPOINTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope. 2. Unprepared; unequipped. Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled. Shak.

Related words: (words related to DISAPPOINTED)

• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• BALKY
  Apt to balk; as, a balky horse.
• BALKINGLY
  In manner to balk or frustrate.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• EXPECTATION
  The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age. Syn. -- Anticipation; confidence; trust. (more info) 1. The act
• PERSONAL
  Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
• PERSONIFY
  1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
• PERSONIFIER
  One who personifies.
• BALKER
  One who, or that which balks.
• PERSONA
  See 8
• PERSONABLE
  1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E.
• UNHOUSELED
  To die like the houseless dog on yonder common, unshriven and unhouseled. Sir W. Scott.
• PERSONALLY
  1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually;
• DEFEATURED
  Changed in features; deformed. Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.
• PERSONALISM
  The quality or state of being personal; personality.
• UNANELED
  Not aneled; not having received extreme unction. Shak.
• DISAPPOINTMENT
  1. The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration. If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• UNIPERSONALIST
  One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.
• TRIPERSONALITY
  The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
• IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
  The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
• TRIPERSONAL
  Consisting of three persons. Milton.
• MONOPERSONAL
  Having but one person, or form of existence.
• PREEXPECTATION
  Previous expectation.
• IMPERSONATOR
  One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.