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dismayful

adj

Etymology

From dismay + -ful.

  1. derived from *megʰ-✻
  2. derived from *maginą✻
  3. derived from *exmagare✻
  4. derived from esmaier
  5. derived from *desmaiier✻
  6. inherited from dismayen
  7. suffixed as dismayful — “dismay + ful”

Definitions

  1. Terrifying

    • And much dismay'd with that dismayful Sight, That back she would have turn'd for great Affright
    • O let despair Haunt unbless'd souls; let its dismayful looks Affright not thee, thou source of clearest hope, Which in one stream thro' earthly dullness flows Into this glad receptacle, the heart.

  2. Dismaying

    Dismaying; disheartening.

    • No announcement could have been more dismayful; but this time Matilda said nothing.

  3. Dismayed

    Dismayed; full of disappointment or low spirits.

    • "Boots?" —said his mother, in an accent that sounded a little dismayful.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA