failing to fulfil someone's hopes or expectations: the team made a disappointing start | [ with clause ] : it was disappointing that there were relatively few possibilities.
DERIVATIVES
disappointingly adverb [ as submodifier ] : there was disappointingly little change | [ sentence adverb ] :disappointingly, my German failed to improve
ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘deprive of a position’): from Old French desappointer .
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