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.
