Definitions for letdown

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letdown let·down

Spelling: [let-doun]

IPA: /ˈlɛtˌdaʊn/

Letdown is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in letdown (delnotw).

Definitions for letdown

noun

1. a decrease in volume, force, energy, etc.:
2. disillusionment, discouragement, or disappointment:
3. depression; deflation:
4. the accelerated movement of milk into the mammary glands of lactating mammals upon stimulation, as by massage or suckling.
5. 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 letdown

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

Examples for letdown

Worried that the finale of Breaking Bad—which returns to AMC for its final run of eight episodes on August 11—will be a letdown?

Michelle Cottle on the left's high hopes—and potential for letdown.

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

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.

It has to be seen as something of a letdown for an Obama campaign that was leaving Charlotte on a high.

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

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

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

Here are the reasons why the new season of Arrested Development is a letdown.