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- Dictionarylet·down/ˈletˌdoun/
noun
- 1. a disappointment or a feeling of disappointment: "the election was a bit of a letdown"
- 2. the release of milk in a nursing mother or lactating animal: "in order to aid let-down do not feed at this time"
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an act of disappointing someone; disappointment: It was quite a letdown when Joyce only got a grade of C on the final exam. (Definition of letdown from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of letdown. letdown.
noun. 1. a disappointment. The flat was really very nice, but compared with what we'd been used to, it was a terrible letdown. The sense of letdown today is all the greater because in the past doctors have been over-confident about these treatments. 2. aeronautics. the gliding descent of an aircraft in preparation for landing. 3. veterinary science
The meaning of LETDOWN is discouragement, disappointment. How to use letdown in a sentence.
A let-down is a disappointment that you suffer, usually because something has not happened in the way in which you expected it to happen. The flat was nice, but compared with what we'd been used to, it was a terrible let-down. At the end of the book, there's a sense of let-down for the reader. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
Letdown definition: a decrease in volume, force, energy, etc.. See examples of LETDOWN used in a sentence.
let down. 1. To cause to come down gradually; lower: let down the sails. 2. To withdraw support from; forsake. 3. To fail to meet the expectations of; disappoint.
Definitions of 'let down'. 1. If you let someone down, you disappoint them, by not doing something that you have said you will do or that they expected you to do. [...] 2. If something lets you down, it is the reason you are not as successful as you could have been. [...]
