disappoint
part of speech
verb (disappoint, disappoints, disappointed, disappointing)
meaning for a pupil
1) To make someone sad because something was not as good as they hoped, or did not happen. tree →
2) To let someone down by not doing what they expected. tree →
sense in the lessons
A very common everyday word for feelings. Adjectives: disappointed (how you feel) and disappointing (what made you feel it). Phrases: «disappointed in someone», «disappointed with something», «I'm sorry to disappoint you». In stories it shows that hopes were not met.
examples
- The film disappointed me — the book was better. tree →
- I don't want to disappoint my team. tree →
- We were disappointed when the trip was cancelled. tree →
- The weather was disappointing. tree →
- Alice was disappointed to find the little door locked again. tree →
- Sorry to disappoint you, but there's no cake left. tree →
- His test score didn't disappoint his mum. tree →
- Toad disappointed his friends again and again. tree →
note
Spelling trap: one s, two p's — dis-ap-point. I am disappointED (my feeling); the match was disappointING (the thing). Noun: disappointment.
In the corpora
- The Rat gives in, because he can't bear to disappoint his friends.
- He hated disappointing people, and he was fond of the Mole».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «disappoint» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.