Word Meanings - DISAPPOINTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 will be greater our pleasure in the fruition of them. Addison. In disappointment thou canst bless. Keble. 2. That which disappoints. Syn. -- Miscarriage; frustration; balk.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISAPPOINTMENT)

• Blow
• Puff
• blast
• breath
• stroke
• infliction
• wound
• disappointment
• affliction
• knock
• shock
• calamity
• misfortune

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISAPPOINTMENT)

• Restore
• expand
• swell

Related words: (words related to DISAPPOINTMENT)

• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• BLAST
  1. To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom. 2. To blow; to blow on a trumpet. Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste. Chaucer.
• EXPAND
  To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
• KNOCKSTONE
  A block upon which ore is broken up.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• BLASTOSPHERE
  The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
• AFFLICTION
  1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or
• BREATHLESS
  1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath. 2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow
• BLASTOPHORE
  That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
• BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
  Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
• CALAMITY
  1. Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals. Note: The word calamity was first derived from calamus when the corn could not get out of
• STROKE
  1. The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon. His hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree. Deut. xix. 5. A fool's lips enter
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• SHOCK-HEADED
  Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
• KNOCK
  1. A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar. 2. A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap. " A knock at the door." Longfellow. A loud cry or some great knock. Holland. Knock off, a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from
• RESTORE
  Restoration. Spenser.
• INFLICTION
  1. The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment. 2. That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc. His severest inflictions are in themselves acts of justice and righteousness.
• AFFLICTIONLESS
  Free from affliction.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• NEMATOBLAST
  A spermatocyte or spermoblast.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• ABLASTEMIC
  Non-germinal.
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• CNIDOBLAST
  One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.
• BY-STROKE
  An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
• MESOBLASTIC
  Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.
• UPBREATHE
  To breathe up or out; to exhale. Marston.