noun
- a decrease in volume, force, energy, etc.: a letdown in sales; a general letdown of social barriers.
- disillusionment, discouragement, or disappointment: The job was a letdown.
- depression; deflation: He felt a terrible letdown at the end of the play.
- the accelerated movement of milk into the mammary glands of lactating mammals upon stimulation, as by massage or suckling.
- 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.
n.also let-down, “disappointment,” 1768, from let (v.) + down (adv.). The verbal phrase is from mid-12c. in a literal sense; figuratively by 1795.