dismayful

English

Etymology

dismay +‎ -ful

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪfʊl

Adjective

dismayful (comparative more dismayful, superlative most dismayful)

1. (obsolete) terrifying
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And much dismay'd with that dismayful Sight,
     That back she would have turn'd for great Affright

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dismayful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)