Disappointer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Disappointer is a noun meaning One who or that which disappoints (all senses).
Meaning
One who or that which disappoints (all senses).
Example Sentences
She had not been one of those Iranians who viewed America as the Promised Land. To her and her university friends, the U.S. was the great disappointer—the democracy that had, to their mystification, worked to shore up the monarchy back when the Shah was in trouble.
1671, Robert McWard, The Case of the Accommodation Lately Proposed by the Bishop of Dumblane, Letter 1, Post-Script, p. 102, Oh when shall the loud and harsh noises of our debates be turned to the sweeter sound of united prayers for this blessed peace […] and if we be real supplicants for it, we would bewar of being the disappointers of our own desires, and of obstructing the blessing we pray for,
Word Forms
- disappointers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include disgracer, frustrater, bringdown, dismayer, discourager, disquieter.
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