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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
letdown
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It will be a major letdown if we lose the game to Kansas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adding to a potential letdown, the triple was first waved off and then restored after the referees convened at midcourt.
▪ For the political right, Bolick said, the term just ended was a letdown when compared with last year.
▪ The absence of it was a letdown.
▪ The general consensus is the show was a complete snooze, a letdown that garnered huge ratings and little else.
▪ The nation is mired in the muck of post-Superbowl letdown.
▪ The regents were a big letdown.
▪ Waldon has vowed not to let a letdown happen.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
letdown

also let-down, "disappointment," 1768, from let (v.) + down (adv.). The verbal phrase is from mid-12c. in a literal sense; figuratively by 1795.

Wiktionary
letdown

n. (alternative form of let-down English)

WordNet
letdown

n. a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized; "his hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment" [syn: disappointment]

Usage examples of "letdown".

That was another thing, she reflected detachedly as she stepped through the double‑glass doors of the Building Six lobby and looked out across the tepid twilight of the nearly empty parking lot, that they never mentioned in tales of adventure—the sheer amount of cleaning‑up the participants had to do afterward and the gut‑wrenching period of letdown.

That was another thing, she reflected detachedly as she stepped through the doubleglass doors of the Building Six lobby and looked out across the tepid twilight of the nearly empty parking lot, that they never mentioned in tales of adventurethe sheer amount of cleaningup the participants had to do afterward and the gutwrenching period of letdown.

A positive finding in that area might help to compensate for the letdown that people are going to feel when Planet B fizzles out, as the year-captain is sure it will, as a potential settlement site.

Sometimes the letdown had been terrible, senseless devastation, intolerable pain, doctors, sad renunciations, victory of weakness.