Dismay
[dɪs'meɪ] or [dɪs'me]
Definition
(verb.) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; 'I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview'; 'The news of the executions horrified us'.
Typist: Rosa--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
(v. i.) To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
(v. i.) To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
(v. t.) Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
(v. t.) Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
Checker: Spenser
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Terrify, frighten, appall, affright, scare, daunt, alarm, intimidate, paralyze with fear.
n. Terror, fright, affright, fear, alarm, horror, consternation.
Checker: Quincy
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See TERROR]
SYN:Affright, astonish, terrify, dishearten, daunt, scare, frighten, appall
ANT:Encourage, rally, inspirit, assure, allure
Typist: Preston
Definition
v.t. to terrify: to discourage.—n. loss of strength and courage through fear.—n. Dismay′edness.—adj. Dismay′ful (Spens.).
Typist: Tito
Examples
- The news that Dejah Thoris had promised her hand to Sab Than filled him with dismay. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Now, indeed, dismay seized me--dismay and regret. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- My sweet little lady overwhelmed me with dismay; her air of native elegance froze my very marrow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- With dismay and anger they heard Jesus sweeping away their dear securities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She quite gloated on these questions and answers, so keen was her enjoyment of Sarah Pocket's jealous dismay. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- They were nothing--dross that could not dismay me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It suddenly struck her that it might be from Lady Catherine; and she anticipated with dismay all the consequent explanations. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I'm not playing, I never do, said Frank, dismayed at the sentimental predicament out of which he was to rescue the absurd couple. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition, &c. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They understood how difficult it is to transmit knowledge without putting initiative in jeopardy and that quiet int ellect is easily dismayed in the presence of bold speech. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They were not however the less astonished and dismayed when it appeared among themselves. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- These data revealed the fact that the quantity of copper required for the main conductors would be exceedingly large and costly; and, if ever, Edison was somewhat dismayed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was astonished, but by no means dismayed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Poor Worcester was half blinded with his: and, seriously, a man going to be hanged could not well have appeared more discouraged or dismayed. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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