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Disappointment is defined as a feeling of sadness, dissatisfaction or displeasure when something isn't as you planned.

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When you plan your dream house and your builder makes many mistakes and it turns out terribly, this is an example of a time when you feel disappointment.
The house that turned out terribly is an example of a disappointment.

See disappointment in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a disappointing or being disappointed
a person or thing that disappoints

See disappointment in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. The act of disappointing.
b. The condition or feeling of being disappointed.
One that disappoints.

A cape of southwest Washington on the northern side of the mouth of the Columbia River. It was named in 1788 by a British sea captain who was searching for the fabled River of the West and was disappointed when he did not discover a wide river mouth.

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