All letdown synonyms
let·down
L l noun letdown
- comedown — If you say that something is a comedown, you think that it is not as good as something else that you have just done or had.
- setback — Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
- anticlimax — You can describe something as an anticlimax if it disappoints you because it happens after something that was very exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected.
- blow — When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves.
- balk — If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
- chagrin — Chagrin is a feeling of disappointment, upset, or annoyance, perhaps because of your own failure.
- disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- frustration — act of frustrating; state of being frustrated: the frustration of the president's efforts.
- disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- washout — a washing out of earth, gravel, etc., by water, as from an embankment or a roadway by heavy rain or by a flash flood.
- disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
- damp squib — You can describe something such as an event or a performance as a damp squib when it is expected to be interesting, exciting, or impressive, but fails to be any of these things.
- flop — to fall or plump down suddenly, especially with noise; drop or turn with a sudden bump or thud (sometimes followed by down): The puppy flopped down on the couch.
- failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- baulk — the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion
- bitter pill — a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept (often in the expression a bitter pill to swallow): Being passed over for promotion was a bitter pill to swallow.