LET-DOWN


Meaning of LET-DOWN in English

also letdown

( let-downs)

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 really very nice, but compared with what we’d been used to, it was a terrible let-down...

The sense of let-down today is all the greater because in the past doctors have been over-confident about these treatments.

= disappointment

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