View synonyms for letdown

letdown

or let-down

[ let-doun ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a decrease in volume, force, energy, etc.:
a letdown in sales; a general letdown of social barriers.
disillusionment, discouragement, or disappointment:
The job was a letdown.
depression; deflation:
He felt a terrible letdown at the end of the play.
the accelerated movement of milk into the mammary glands of lactating mammals upon stimulation, as by massage or suckling.
Aeronautics. the descent of an aircraft from a higher to a lower altitude preparatory to making an approach and landing or to making a target run or the like.

Origin of letdown¹

First recorded in 1760–70; noun use of verb phrase let down

Over the next couple of years, though, some felt a letdown when they discovered that Borges had written no long works.

Marlow: Only a bit of a letdown up until the final handful of episodes!

Kent Sepkowitz wrote this past spring that other HIV "cures" didn't last long and this one was likely to be a letdown.

After the election night letdown the film jumps back to Christmas 2006.

The film is a hard-to-find creature, a smart rom-com that captures the exuberance of falling in love, and the inevitable letdown.

Someone else—Crag was never quite sure who—wanted an exact description of how the Aztec had handled during letdown.

Knowing that nothing was in sight but waiting was a letdown after the activity of the predawn hours.

For most people, the experience of hypnosis is something of a letdown.

No matter how you looked at the situation, the kid was in for a big letdown.

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