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Letdown   /lˈɛtdˌaʊn/   Listen
Letdown

noun
1.
A feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized.  Synonym: disappointment.





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"Letdown" Quotes from Famous Books



... that this was going a familiar way, which had happened quite often at Tech: Struggle through a tough course, hear dire promises of head-cracking questions and math problems in the final quiz. Then the switch—the easy letdown. ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun
... large bone; which stunned, or, to say the truth, killed her. I committed this inhuman action merely for the sake of the bread and water that was in her coffin, and thus I had provision for some days more. When that was spent, they letdown another dead woman, and a living man; I killed the man in the same manner, and, as there was then a sort of mortality in the town, by continuing this practice I did ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous


Words linked to "Letdown" :   frustration, disappointment, defeat, let down, dissatisfaction


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