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• her decision to cancel the concert is bound to disappoint her fans.
• i hate to disappoint you, but i'm just not interested.
• the movie had disappointed her (= it wasn't as good as she had expected).
• his latest novel does not disappoint.

disappoint

1. to make somebody feel sad because something that they hope for or expect to happen does not happen or is not as good as they hoped
• See related entries: Unhappiness
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/unhappiness/disappoint_1
• Her decision to cancel the concert is bound to disappoint her fans.
• I hate to disappoint you, but I'm just not interested.
• The movie had disappointed her (= it wasn't as good as she had expected).
• His latest novel does not disappoint.
2. to prevent something that somebody hopes for from becoming a reality
• See related entries: Disappointment
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/disappointment/disappoint_2
• The new government had soon disappointed the hopes of many of its supporters.

Extra Examples

• I hate to disappoint the children when they’ve been looking forward to it so much.
• I hate to disappoint you, but I’m just not interested.
• If he agrees to the deal he will disappoint the expectations of many colleagues.
• The movie had disappointed her.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they disappoint
• he / she / it disappoints
• past simple disappointed
• past participle disappointed
• -ing form disappointing

Word Origin

• late Middle English (in the sense ‘deprive of a position’): from Old French desappointer.