What's the difference between disappointment and failure?

Disappointment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.
  • (n.) That which disappoints.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A spokesman for the Greens said that the party was “disappointed” with the decision and would be making representations to both the BBC and BBC Trust .
  • (2) Even today, our experience of the zoo is so often interrupted by disappointment and confusion.
  • (3) No one expected us to win either of these byelections, but we can’t ignore how disappointing these results are,” he said, referring also to last week’s Richmond Park byelection.
  • (4) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
  • (5) Results of medical therapy of reflux oesophagitis are disappointing, especially compared to the success obtained in peptic ulcer disease.
  • (6) Drugs used to promote food intake and weight gain, such as cyproheptadine, amitriptyline, clonidine and opiate antagonists, have provided disappointing results.
  • (7) I am pleased with that but disappointed with the result.
  • (8) How often do we use the term depressed to mean disappointed, mildly bummed out or sort of blue?
  • (9) I did not speak to Diego at the final whistle, losing so late in the game was too big a disappointment, especially when Romelu Lukaku was surrounded by three or four defenders and still scored.” That was something Martínez could agree with.
  • (10) For a long time the results were disappointing, and in a randomized study none of the therapeutic regimens prescribed could improve the patients' survival.
  • (11) Audiences were disappointed that the love scenes between Taylor and Burton that had been the talk of modern Rome were not repeated with so much passion in those of ancient Rome.
  • (12) Despite a glorious career, her Olympic history had been one of crushing disappointment.
  • (13) We are disappointed by the statement from Ecuador’s Foreign Minister that Ecuador has offered political asylum to Julian Assange.
  • (14) Here's Rob Booth talking to me from there: Updated at 6.31pm BST 6.14pm BST Disappointment at the Ecuadorian embassy Outside the Ecuador embassy in Knightsbridge a handful of Assange supporters greeted the decision with disappointment.
  • (15) While occult breast carcinoma was relatively common in our series (two of 17 patients), the ability to detect the tumor with mammography was disappointing (one of two patients).
  • (16) Diego Garcia guards its secrets even as the truth on CIA torture emerges Read more The long-awaited decision – expected to cause enormous disappointment – follows more than 40 years of campaigning, court cases and calls for the UK to right a wrong committed by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
  • (17) They are also deeply disappointed in the lack of pressure exerted on Israel by the US.
  • (18) To improve the slightly disappointing voice rehabilitation results of the myotomized laryngectomees, a modified myotomy is proposed.
  • (19) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
  • (20) Jay is naturally disappointed, but is determined to get back playing for Southampton as soon as possible."

Failure


Definition:

  • (n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
  • (n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
  • (n.) Want of success; the state of having failed.
  • (n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
  • (n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
  • (n.) A failing; a slight fault.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
  • (2) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
  • (3) One of the main components was confirmed to be caffeic acid which had inhibitory effect on renal failure in mice by Ac1-P.
  • (4) During the procedure, acute respiratory failure developed as a result of tracheal obstruction.
  • (5) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
  • (6) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
  • (7) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
  • (8) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
  • (9) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
  • (10) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
  • (11) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
  • (12) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
  • (13) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
  • (14) The failure rates of the 2 regimens to suppress lactation were similar; however, rebound lactation occurred in a small proportion of women treated with bromocriptine.
  • (15) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
  • (16) Blood samples from 23 subjects with chronic renal failure and 19 controls were tested using thrombelastography and other hematologic tests.
  • (17) Cardiac pump function is not affected, even in patients with ventricular dysfunction or heart failure, in whom chronic oral administration of the drug is well tolerated.
  • (18) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
  • (19) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
  • (20) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.