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dismay
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    She was dismayed at this turn of events.
    dismayed = sad, disappointed, or worried
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    Jonas's mother rolled her eyes in dismay.  (source)
    dismay = disappointment or worry
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    Mae Tuck's round face wrinkled in dismay. "Dear Lord, don't cry!"  (source)
    dismay = distress
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    I leap up. Bob goes flying, straight into my pool. ... He scrambles out of the water, shaking each foot in dismay.  (source)
    dismay = disappointment
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    Oh, it rains, it pours, Noah himself would be dismayed.  (source)
    dismayed = saddened, worried, or discouraged
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    Even the thought of persecution left him undismayed, was rather tonic than depressing.†  (source)
    undismayed = not sad, disappointed, or worried
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undismayed means not and reverses the meaning of dismayed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Battle Plan had ordered a new tactical doctrine which I found dismaying: Do not close the Bugs tunnels.†  (source)
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    Was there a man dismay'd?†  (source)
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    But, in the morning, and for several mornings after that, the queasiness in her gut persisted, then worsened, became something dismayingly familiar.†  (source)
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    What dismays him most is the irrelevance of it all.†  (source)
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    "Somebody's mashed my costume," I wailed in dismay.  (source)
    dismay = sadness or disappointment
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    The others looked dismayed; only Aragorn, who knew Gandalf well, remained silent and unmoved.  (source)
    dismayed = worried or discouraged
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    "God," said the dying man, pointing his finger, with a ghastly look, at the undismayed countenance of his enemy,—"God will give him blood to drink!"†  (source)
    undismayed = not sad, disappointed, or worried
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