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dismayfully

dismayfully adverb: in dismay.

Adverb

dismayfully (comparative more dismayfully, superlative most dismayfully)

  1. (rare) In dismay.
    • Nought feared they what he could do or say, / But th'onely feare that was before their vew, / From which like mazed deare dismayfully they flew.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of dismayfully

comparativemore dismayfully
superlativemost dismayfully

Origin of dismayfully

From dismayful + -ly.

Questions about dismayfully

What does dismayfully mean?
Dismayfully means in dismay.
What part of speech is dismayfully?
Dismayfully is an adverb.

Words near dismayfully in the dictionary

  1. dismayedly
  2. dismayedness
  3. dismayer
  4. dismayers
  5. dismayful
  6. dismayfully
  7. dismaying
  8. dismayingly
  9. dismayings
  10. dismays
  11. disme

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