Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of dismay; causing dismay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Terrifying.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
terrifying
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
dismay + -ful
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Examples
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Add to this that -- thought of all most dismayful!
Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1 George MacDonald 1864
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Add to this that -- thought of all most dismayful!
Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864
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This was very dismayful, all the more because Colonel Gainsborough did not come out frankly with the whole truth.
A Red Wallflower Susan Warner 1852
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– said his mother, in an accent that sounded a little dismayful.
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-- said his mother, in an accent that sounded a little dismayful.
Hills of the Shatemuc Susan Warner 1852
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