disappointments
- 1Plural of disappointment.
Years of professional disappointments had taught him patience.
The memoir dwells on the small disappointments that shaped her childhood.
Note
Only the countable meanings of the noun take a plural: individual letdowns, and the people or things that cause them. The feeling itself is uncountable, so you speak of deep disappointment but of a string of disappointments. The plural counts occasions or causes, such as years of professional setbacks or a team that ranks among the season's disappointments. It does not measure how sad someone feels.
disappointments is a form of disappointment
disappointment, noun: The feeling of sadness or frustration that comes when something turns out worse than hoped, or when something bad happens unexpectedly. Full entry
- Forms
- disappointmentdisappointments plural
- Spelling
- disappointment → disappointments: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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