Usually means: Failed to meet expectations, unhappy.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word disappointed:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. disappointed: Merriam-Webster
  2. disappointed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disappointed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disappointed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disappointed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disappointed, disappointed: Wordnik
  7. disappointed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disappointed: Wiktionary
  9. disappointed: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Disappointed, disappointed: Dictionary.com
  11. disappointed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Disappointed (Ivy song), Disappointed, The Disappointed (song), The Disappointed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Disappointed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. disappointed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. disappointed: Rhymezone
  16. Disappointed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. disappointed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. disappointed: FreeDictionary.org
  19. disappointed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. disappointed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. disappointed: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disappointed: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disappointed: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disappointed: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down.
▸ adjective:  Having had a marriage proposal rejected.
▸ adjective:  Expressing or indicating disappointment.

Similar:
frustrated, thwarted, defeated, unsuccessful, foiled, discomfited, dismayed, surprised, impressed, unimpressed, more...

Opposite:
elated, satisfied, pleased, content, delighted

Types:
crestfallen, sad, unhappy, displeased, pained, regretful, more...

Phrases:
The Journal of a Disappointed Man, disappointed and frustrated, annoyed and disappointed, disappointed in oneself, sad disappointed, more...

Colors:
    gray,     dull blue,     muted brown,     olive green,     charcoal, more...



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Similar:
frustrated, thwarted, defeated, unsuccessful, foiled, discomfited, dismayed, surprised, impressed, unimpressed, more...

Opposite:
elated, satisfied, pleased, content, delighted

Types:
crestfallen, sad, unhappy, displeased, pained, regretful, more...

Phrases:
The Journal of a Disappointed Man, disappointed and frustrated, annoyed and disappointed, disappointed in oneself, sad disappointed, sad and disappointed, disappointed but not surprised, more...

Colors:
    gray,     dull blue,     muted brown,     olive green,     charcoal, more...



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