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Disappointed vs Appointed - What's the difference?

disappointed | appointed |

As verbs the difference between disappointed and appointed

is that disappointed is past tense of disappoint while appointed is past tense of appoint.

As an adjective disappointed

is defeated of expectation or hope; let down.

disappointed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Defeated of expectation or hope; let down.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed . I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

    Synonyms

    * discomfited * foiled * frustrated * thwarted

    Verb

    (head)
  • (disappoint)

    • appointed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (appoint).
  • *, chapter=3
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”}}