dismaying

== English == === Verb === dismaying present participle and gerund of dismay === Adjective === dismaying (comparative more dismaying, superlative most dismaying) Disheartening; daunting. ==== Derived terms ==== === Noun === dismaying (plural dismayings) (archaic) A state of dismay. quoted in 1842, John Mason Good, John Mason Neale, An Historical Outline of the Book of Psalms (page 186) My dismayings utterly consume me: / They encompass me like water: / They press wholly upon me every day.