Synonyms of the word

dismay

• n. A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling…
• n. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
• v. To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and…
• v. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
• v. To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

affright

• n. (archaic) Great fear, terror, fright.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To terrify, to frighten, to inspire fright in.
• adj. afraid; terrified; frightened.

alarm

• n. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
• n. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention;…
• n. A sudden attack; disturbance.
• n. Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly,…
• n. A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
• n. An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
• v. (transitive) To call to arms for defense.
• v. (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger.
• v. (transitive) To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
• v. (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil;…
• v. (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.

appal

• v. (Britain, less common) Alternative spelling of appall.

appall

• v. (transitive) To fill with horror; to dismay.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make pale; to blanch.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To weaken; to reduce in strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To lose flavour or become stale.

consternation

• n. Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with…

deject

• v. (transitive) Make sad or dispirited.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cast down.

demoralise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of demoralize.

demoralize

• v. (American) To destroy morale; to dishearten.

depress

• v. To press down.
• v. To make depressed, sad or bored.
• v. To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
• v. To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
• v. (mathematics) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

despair

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to despair.
• v. (intransitive, often with “of”) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
• n. Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
• n. That which is despaired of.

discourage

• v. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
• v. To persuade somebody not to do something.
• n. (rare) Lack of courage.

discouragement

• n. the act of discouraging.
• n. anything that discourages.

disheartenment

• n. The act of disheartening.
• n. The state of being disheartened; dejection.

dispirit

• v. (transitive) To lower the morale of; to make despondent; to dishearten.

fear

• n. (uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
• n. (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
• n. (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
• v. (transitive) To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
• v. (intransitive) To feel fear (about something).
• v. (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
• v. (transitive) Regret.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt.
• adj. (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

fearfulness

• n. The quality of being fearful.

fright

• n. A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short…
• n. Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To frighten.
• adj. (rare) frightened; afraid; affright.

frighten

• v. To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.

horrify

• v. To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.

scare

• n. A minor fright.
• n. A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.
• v. To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.