noun, verb
noun [U] a worried, sad feeling after you have received an unpleasant surprise:
She could not hide her dismay at the result. * He looked at her in dismay. * To her dismay, her name was not on the list. * The news has been greeted with dismay by local business leaders.
verb [VN] to make sb feel shocked and disappointed:
Their reaction dismayed him.
dismayed adjective ~ (at / by sth)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for dismay is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does dismay appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — dismay appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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