- letdown
- n1. decrease, decline, declension, gradual loss; wane, ebb, reflux, fall, falling off, slowdown, depreciation, shrinkage; reduction, cutback, cutting down, retrenchment; curtailment, abridgment, shortening, dwindling; abatement, lessening, letup, mitigation, diminishing, diminution, subsidence, easing off.2. disillusionment, disappointment, disenchantment; dissatisfaction, discontent; mortification, chagrin, frustration, balk, bafflement; regret, rue, sorrow, pain; bitter pill, setback, blow, blow to one's pride, Inf. comeuppance; humbling, Inf. comedown, humiliation, disgrace, shame, shaming.3. failure, Inf. flop, defeat, collapse; nonfulfillment, nonsuccess; fiasco, Inf. washout, fizzle, flash in the pan, Inf. no-go, shipwreck; miscarriage, abortion.4. depression, deflation, discouragement, dejection; despondency, blues, unhappiness, Psychiatry. melancholia, disconsolation, disconsolateness; dispiritedness, low-spiritedness, doldrums, Inf. dumps, disheartenment, downheartedness; dolefulness, gloominess, dolor, sorrow, grief; misery, despair, desolation, hopelessness, bleakness, dreariness, darkness, sadness.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.