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разочарование — meaning in English

razocharovaniye

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English meaning

  • 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.
  • drag verb To pull something heavy along a surface, often with effort.
  • frustration noun A feeling of annoyance or distress caused by being unable to do or achieve something.

Senses

разочарование is used for these senses in English:

  • 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.
  • disillusionment The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.
  • frustration The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
  • frustration The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
  • let-down (countable) A disappointment or anticlimax.

disappointment — full definition

  1. noun The feeling of sadness or letdown when something doesn't meet expectations.
  2. noun Something or someone that fails to meet expectations.

disillusionment — full definition

  1. 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.
  2. noun The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.

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