Disappointment (Failure of expectation)
Nouns
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disappointment
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blighted hope, balk
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blow
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anticlimax
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slip 'twixt cup and lip
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nonfulfillment of one's hopes
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sad disappointment, bitter disappointment
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trick of fortune
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afterclap
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false expectation, vain expectation
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miscalculation etc. Misjudgment
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fool's paradise
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much cry and little wool.
Verbs
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be disappointed
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look blank, look blue
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look aghast, stand aghast etc. (wonder) Wonder
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find to one's cost
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laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth
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find one a false prophet. not realize one's hope, not realize one's expectation. [cause to be disappointed] disappoint
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frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure) Failure
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crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage
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balk, jilt, bilk
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play one false, play a trick
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dash the cup from the lips, tantalize
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dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish) Wonder.
Adjectives
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disappointed etc. v.
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disconcerted, aghast
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disgruntled
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out of one's reckoning.
Phrases
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the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse
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the bubble burst
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one's countenance falling.