verb
- Fail to meet the hopes or expectations of.
- usage: "Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage"
- synonyms: disappoint, let down
adjective
- Not up to expectations.
- usage: "a disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising"
- synonyms: dissatisfactory, unsatisfying
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