1. Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.
2. Unprepared; unequipped. [Obs.]
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled.
Shak. Disappointment
(Dis`ap*point"ment) n. [Cf. F. désappointement.]
1. The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage
of design or plan; frustration.
If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment will be
greater than our pleasure in the fruition of them.
Addison.
In disappointment thou canst bless.
Keble. 2. That which disappoints.
Syn. — Miscarriage; frustration; balk.
Disappreciate
(Dis`ap*pre"ci*ate) v. t. [See Appreciate.] To undervalue; not to esteem. — Dis`ap*pre`ci*a"tion
n.
Disapprobation
(Dis*ap`pro*ba"tion) n. [Pref. dis- + approbation: cf. F. désapprobation. Cf. Disapprove.]
The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling
of censure.
We have ever expressed the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps.
Burke. Disapprobatory
(Dis*ap"pro*ba`to*ry) a. Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
Disappropriate
(Dis`ap*pro"pri*ate) a. (Law) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual
corporation.
The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways.
Blackstone. Disappropriate
(Dis`ap*pro"pri*ate) v. t.
1. To release from individual ownership or possession. Milton.
2. (Law) To sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation.
Appropriations of the several parsonages . . . would heave been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated.
Blackstone. Disappropriation
(Dis`ap*pro`pri*a"tion) n. The act of disappropriating.
Disapproval
(Dis`ap*prov"al) n. Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
Disapprove
(Dis`ap*prove) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disapproved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Disapproving.] [Pref.
dis- + approve: cf. F. déapprouver. Cf. Disapprobation.]
1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable,
or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others.
2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court- martial
was disapproved by the commander in chief.
