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- prepositions - Disappointment at or disappointment in - English . . .
Both "disappointed in" and "disappointed at" are idiomatic in American English In general in American English, people tend to use "disappointed in" with reference to a specific person or group of people
- grammar - Is it disappointed with, in, or by? - English Language . . .
Disappointed with (object) - an object of neutral gender E g: I am disappointed with your service Disappointed over - an incidence Disappointed in with - very similar but slightly different connotation 'In' is more personal and conveys reflection on the individual 'With' is more used for disappointment over an isolated incidence
- Usage of I am agreeably disappointed in - English Language Learners . . .
But disappointed could refer to an experience that simply ran counter to expectation, and there need not be any tinge of dejection about it, certainly if what was expected was not hoped for I think the lawyer is playing with the word as he is aware of the colloquial and non-collloquial usages
- We are disappointed of someone disappointed from someone . . .
Of the list you provide, "in" is the most idiomatic, but there's also "disappointed by ", "disappointed with ", and "disappointed at " a person or persons You can, apparently, be "disappointed of " some expected result, which can include the actions of some person
- prepositions - disappointed in at the fact that - English Language . . .
disappointed with by: Fairly generic ways of saying something disappointed you With may emphasize that you consciously evaluated something and determined it was disappointing, rather than having the disappointment directly triggered in you by something external
- word usage - lt;Hopeless gt;, lt;Discouraged gt; and lt;Disappointed gt; - English . . .
Both Don't be discouraged and Don't be disappointed are perfectly natural things to say, and in many contexts they'll effectively mean the same thing - speaker is advising someone to look on the bright side (to find good things in a bad situation) As OP has discovered, the dictionary definitions are somewhat different, but they're obviously closely related A "defeatist" reaction to finding
- [They] went away disappointed disappointedly – Does went away . . .
1 "Disappointed" is an adjective, and would describe their mood as they went away Their mood and their departure would be unconnected, and their disappointment may well carry on after they finish their journey away "Disappointedly" is an adverb, so it describes the manner of the other verb - in this case, the way in which they 'went away'
- verbs - What is the difference between seemed disappointed and . . .
Closed 9 years ago Do they both mean the same thing with former having 'disappointed' as a noun while the latter, as a verb Or the latter may refer seeing a person becoming disappointed and the former, a person already in a disappointed state There's another statement: He seemed to becoming disappointed But I believe this's incorrect
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