different between jolt vs disappointment
jolt
English
Etymology
Perhaps from Middle English jollen (“to stagger, knock, batter”), itself perhaps a variant of Middle English chollen (“to strike, juggle, do tricks”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??lt/, IPA(key): /d???lt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?o?lt/
- Rhymes: -?lt, -??lt
Verb
jolt (third-person singular simple present jolts, present participle jolting, simple past and past participle jolted)
- (transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
- The bus jolted its passengers at every turn.
- (transitive) To knock sharply
- (transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert
- I jolted her out of complacency.
- (transitive) To shock emotionally.
- Her untimely death jolted us all.
- (intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
- The car jolted along the stony path.
Derived terms
- jolter
- jolthead
- jolting
- joltproof
- jolty
Translations
Noun
jolt (plural jolts)
- An act of jolting.
- A surprise or shock.
- (slang) A long prison sentence.
- (slang) A narcotic injection.
Coordinate terms
- (prison sentence): bit
Translations
References
jolt From the web:
- what jolt means
- what melts
- what melts ice
- what melts snow
- what melts ice the fastest
- what melts ice besides salt
- what melts belly fat
- what melts slime
disappointment
English
Etymology
disappoint +? -ment
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?s??p??ntm?nt/
Noun
disappointment (countable and uncountable, plural disappointments)
- (uncountable) A feeling of sadness or frustration when a strongly held expectation is not met.
- 1992, Today, News Group Newspapers Ltd
- Choking back his disappointment after his own team's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa, he said: "I've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side."
- 1992, Today, News Group Newspapers Ltd
- (countable) A circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met.
- 1990, Peter Hennessy, Cabinet, Basil Blackwell Ltd
- As the disappointments crowded in — the economy, Rhodesia, strife within the trade-union movement — Wilson tried the expedient of a semi-formal inner Cabinet, or Parliamentary Committee, as he misleadingly liked to call it.
- 1990, Peter Hennessy, Cabinet, Basil Blackwell Ltd
- (uncountable) A feeling of sadness or frustration when a negative unexpected event occurs.
- (countable) That which causes feelings of disappointment.
Synonyms
- let-down
- setback
Related terms
- disappoint
Translations
disappointment From the web:
- what disappointment feels like
- what disappointment means
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