Both Uses of
dismay
in
A Room With A View
- Lucy thought she had never seen anything more beautiful; but Miss Lavish, with a shriek of dismay, dragged her forward, declaring that they were out of their path now by at least a mile.†
Chpt 2 *dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry
- They alone will visit Athens and Delphi, and either shrine of intellectual song—that upon the Acropolis, encircled by blue seas; that under Parnassus, where the eagles build and the bronze charioteer drives undismayed towards infinity.†
Chpt 20undismayed = not sad, disappointed, or worriedstandard 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.
Definition:
to feel sadness, disappointment, or worry -- typically in response to something surprising