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失望 — meaning in English

shitsubō

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English meaning

  • despair noun A total loss of hope.
  • disappointed adj Feeling let down because something did not turn out as hoped.
  • disappointment noun The feeling of sadness or letdown when something doesn't meet expectations.
  • disillusionment noun A feeling of disappointment, akin to depression, arising from the realization that something is not what it was expected or believed to be, possibly accompanied by philosophical angst from having one's beliefs challenged.

Senses

失望 is used for these senses in English:

  • disappointed Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down.
  • disappointment (countable) An example or the act of disappointing: a circumstance in which a positive expectation is not achieved.
  • disillusionment A feeling of disappointment, akin to depression, arising from the realization that something is not what it was expected or believed to be, possibly accompanied by philosophical angst from having one's beliefs challenged.
  • let down (transitive, idiomatic) To disappoint; to betray or fail somebody.

despair — full definition

  1. noun A total loss of hope.
  2. verb To lose all hope.

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