A plurality say disappointment is grey. Click a color to add your vote.
Disappointment is grey because…
“Disappointment is a resigned sigh that you take as you have to adapt to whatever new slightly upsetting or minorly inconvenient news you just got. Even when it’s something big that falls through, in the end you’re left with the emotional equivalent of a puddle of water on the kitchen floor. There is no other color besides grey that mirror this sort of dull remanent feeling, as grey is an equally dull and uninteresting color.”
“It gives off sadness which is close enough to disappointment.”
“It makes you feel sad and down when someone is disappointed in you.”
“I think disappointment is grey because white is happy, and black is sad, so grey is like in the middle, and it’s disappointment.”
“It is sad. But it is milder than, say, fury or deep depression. So it is not a strong color like black or red.
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“It has almost no variations and is boring. There’s only warm grey and cool grey. Sure, black and white only have one color variation but they are used for so many colors and are everywhere. Grey is just grey.”
“Grey is uninteresting, not quite white, not quite black. It’s just... disappointing. Disappointment is just a gray feeling in general. It doesn’t feel good or bad. Just something strange in between.”
“It juat feels so heavy, like grey concrete surrounding your body.”
Disappointment is brown because…
“If you try to make a rainbow with all the paints it comes out as brown, and that’s disappointing.”
Disappointment is black because…
“Because disappointment seems dark, and it kind of feels like when your disappointed that there’s a pit in your chest which seems black to me.”
“It makes you feel a hollow void within the pit of your stomach. ”
Disappointment is blue because…
“Disappointment and sadness are similar, and I think sadness is blue.”
“Blue is sadness.
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“It kinda goes to sadness.
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“Sadness.”
“It reminds me of being sad; when you are sad someone could me disappointed in you, or you could have failed a test and been disappointed.”
Disappointment is orange because…
“Red is anger, blue is sadness, green is disgust, yellow is happiness. Disappointment is between anger and sadness, so orange is the only option.”
Disappointment is pink because…
“Pink is a permanent assignment, trapping and constraining those caught within its grasp against their will. Pink is not a choice, but an act of non-consent. ”
Disappointment is white because…
“It’s blank, and feels empty, like disappointment.”