| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| |
| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties | | Division (I) Formation of Ideas | | Section VI. Extension of Thought |
| 2. To the Future |
| |
| 509. [Failure of Expectation.] Disappointment. |
| |
| | |
| NOUN: | DISAPPOINTMENT; blighted hope, disillusion, balk; blow; slip ’twixt cup and lip; nonfulfillment of one’s hopes; sad -, bitter- disappointment; trick of fortune; afterclap; false -, vain- expectation; miscalculation [See Misjudgment]; fool’s paradise; much cry and little wool.
|
| | |
| VERB: | BE DISAPPOINTED; look blank, look blue [colloq.]; look or stand aghast (wonder) [See Wonder]; find to one’s cost; laugh on the wrong side of one’s mouth [colloq.], laugh out of the other corner of the mouth [colloq.]; find one a false prophet.
DISAPPOINT; crush -, dash -, balk -, disappoint -, blight -, falsify -, defeat -, not realize- one’s -hope, - expectation; balk, jilt, bilk; play one -false, - a trick; dash the cup from the lips; tantalize; dumfounder or dumbfounder, dumfound or dumbfound, disillusion, disillusionize; come short of; dissatisfy, make dissatisfied, disgruntle.
|
| | |
| ADJECTIVE: | DISAPPOINTED &c. v.; disconcerted, aghast; disgruntled; out of one’s reckoning; short of expectations.
|
| | |
| QUOTATIONS: | - The mountain brought forth a mouse.
- Parturiunt montes nascetur ridiculus mus.—Horace
- Dis aliter visum.—Vergil
- The bubble burst.
- One’s countenance falling.
|
|
|
