DISMAYING Synonyms

• not up to expectations

• causing an emotional disturbance

• depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action

• expressing disapproval in order to dissuade

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• bad; unfortunate

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• inspiring fear

• causing an emotional disturbance

• disturb the composure of

• strike with disgust or revulsion

• fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised

• fear resulting from the awareness of danger

• a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event

• an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

• a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time

• fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised

• warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness

• cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away

• fill with terror; frighten greatly

• strike with disgust or revulsion

• fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised

• fear resulting from the awareness of danger

• lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

• corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

• lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

• corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

• lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

• confuse or put into disorder