Emotions
Synonyms for disappointment
Synonyms for disappointment: letdown and dismay. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for disappointment
Interchangeable with disappointment in this sense
Audited under disappointment's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one disappointment carries in that sense.
- letdownnoun, in the sense "a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name disappointment as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- dismaydismay is a noun in the sense "a feeling of concern and disappointment at something unexpected"
The first group is filed under disappointment's own sense. The second reaches disappointment from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized
His hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment.
The true synonym
letdown
Same sentence, swapped: His hopes were so high he was doomed to letdown.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- boredom
- displeasure
- opposition
Where disappointment turns up in the game
disappointment is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play disappointment
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so disappointment reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. disappointment carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.