DISMAYED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dismayed mean? 

• DISMAYED (adjective)
  The adjective DISMAYED has 1 sense:

1. struck with fear, dread, or consternation

  Familiarity information: DISMAYED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISMAYED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Struck with fear, dread, or consternation

Synonyms:

aghast; appalled; dismayed; shocked

Similar:

afraid (filled with fear or apprehension)

 Context examples 

I was quite dismayed by the idea of this terrible Jorkins.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had lifted his eyes to me at the commencement of my outburst, and followed me complacently until I had done and stood before him breathless and dismayed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The serene Teuton found the supper-table and was happy, eating steadily through the bill of fare, and dismayed the garcons by the ravages he committed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was weakly dismayed at the ignorance, the poverty, the coarseness of all I heard and saw round me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"I can't. I'm not playing, I never do," said Frank, dismayed at the sentimental predicament out of which he was to rescue the absurd couple.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I felt cold and dismayed: my worst fears then were probably true: he had in all probability left England and rushed in reckless desperation to some former haunt on the Continent.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was so much dismayed by these words, and particularly by the repetition of the last unknown one, which was a kind of rattle in his throat, that I could make no answer; hereupon the old man, still holding me by the hair, repeated: Oh, what do you want?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For nearly three months, I had never been called to Mrs. Reed's presence; restricted so long to the nursery, the breakfast, dining, and drawing-rooms were become for me awful regions, on which it dismayed me to intrude.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

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.; the promise pledged by Mr. Brocklehurst to apprise Miss Temple and the teachers of my vicious nature.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)