dismal, lackluster, disheartening, uninspiring, unimpressive, frustrating, downbeat, dispiriting, surprising, depressing, embarrassing, dreadful, disastrous, woeful, mediocre, subpar, demoralizing, abysmal, shocking, heartbreaking, uninspired, sad, troubling, forgettable, miserable, pleasing, tepid, embarassing, heartening, unfortunate, sluggish, unsurprising, impressive, gloomy, discouraging, distressing, upbeat, bleak, humbling, positive, disconcerting, galling, awful, listless, glum, creditable, sobering, unconvincing, dismaying, bad, horrid, weak, unsatisfying, anticlimactic, downcast, pitiful, humiliating, stellar, underwhelmed, horrendous, inconsistent, dejected, regrettable, unlucky, unsatisfactory, respectable, uncharacteristic, patchy, weakish, lamentable, eventful, gratifying, saddening, good, shaky, dour, encouraging, lopsided, puzzling, disgraceful, tough, terrible, dissatisfying, horrible, stunning, unexciting, wretched, anemic, rosy, happy, pathetic, atrocious, dreary, decent, sloppy, unsettling, worrisome, unspectacular, damning, grim, appalling, lousy, disillusioning, satisfying, tragic, amazing, disagreeable, disturbing

., anticlimax, bathos, blow, bummer, choke, disappointingly, far cry, shock, winless

failure

dashing hopes, disappointment, dissatisfactory