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letdown
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun letdown has 1 sense
- letdown(n = noun.feeling) disappointment - a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized; "his hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment" is a kind of dissatisfaction
has particulars: defeat, frustration
Derived form verb let down2
THESAURUS
letdown
abasement, abatement, allayment, alleviation, arrest, assuagement, bafflement, balk, betrayed hope, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, blunting, buffet, calming, check, comedown, cruel disappointment, damping, dash, dashed hope, deadening, debasement, deceleration, defeat, deflation, delay, demulsion, descent, detention, diminution, disappointment, discomfiture, disgrace, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, drag, dulcification, dulling, dump, ease-off, ease-up, easing, embarrassment, failure, fallen countenance, falling-off, fiasco, fizzle, flagging, foiling, forlorn hope, frustration, hangdog look, holdup, hope deferred, humbled pride, humiliation, hushing, lag, leniency, lessening, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, minus acceleration, mirage, mitigation, modulation, mollification, mortification, obstruction, pacification, palliation, put-down, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, remission, retardation, retardment, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, setback, setdown, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, slack-up, slackening, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowup, softening, soothing, sore disappointment, subduement, tantalization, tease, tempering, tranquilization
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