dismaying

English

Verb

dismaying

1. present participle and gerund of dismay

Adjective

dismaying (comparative more dismaying, superlative most dismaying)

1. Disheartening; daunting.

Derived terms

• dismayingly
• undismaying

 

Noun

dismaying (plural dismayings)

1. (archaic) A state of dismay.
   • quoted in 1842, John Mason Good, John Mason Neale, An Historical Outline of the Book of Psalms (page 186)

     My dismayings utterly consume me: / They encompass me like water: / They press wholly upon me every day.