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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

dismaying en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Disheartening; daunting.

Forms

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more dismaying Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most dismaying Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

undismaying · dismayingly

dismaying en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (archaic) A state of dismay.
    • My dismayings utterly consume me: / They encompass me like water: / They press wholly upon me every day. quoted in 1842, John Mason Good, John Mason Neale, An Historical Outline of the Book of Psalms (page 186)

Forms

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dismayings Number=Plur lexicographic

dismaying en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of dismay
    form of dismay