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dismayd

dismayd is the obsolete form of dismayed.

Meaning of dismayed

Adjective

dismayed (comparative more dismayed, superlative most dismayed)

  1. Having the emotion of dismay.
    • He was dismayed to find his car had gone.

Forms of dismayd

comparativemore dismayd
superlativemost dismayd

Questions about dismayd

What is dismayd the obsolete form of?
Dismayd is the obsolete form of dismayed.

Words near dismayd in the dictionary

  1. dismasting
  2. dismastings
  3. dismastment
  4. dismasts
  5. dismay
  6. dismayd
  7. dismayed
  8. dismayedly
  9. dismayedness
  10. dismayer
  11. dismayers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dismayd (page history and authors); dismayed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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