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dismaying
adjective as in appalling
adjective as in discouraging
adjective as in disturbing
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adjective as in formidable
adjective as in formidable
adjective as in frightful/frightening
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- alarming
- appalling
- atrocious
- awesome
- awful
- chilling
- daunting
- dire
- direful
- disquieting
- dread
- dreadful
- fearful
- fearsome
- formidable
- ghastly
- grabber
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- hair-raising
- hairy
- harrowing
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrid
- horrifying
- inconceivable
- intimidating
- lurid
- macabre
- menacing
- morbid
- ominous
- petrifying
- portentous
- repellent
- spooky
- terrible
- terrifying
- traumatic
- unnerving
- unspeakable
adjective as in perturbing
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adjective as in troublous
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- aggravating
- agitating
- alarming
- annoying
- bothersome
- burdensome
- consequential
- creepy
- depressing
- difficult
- disagreeable
- discomforting
- discommoding
- discomposing
- disconcerting
- discouraging
- disquieting
- disruptive
- distressful
- distressing
- embarrassing
- foreboding
- frightening
- gloomy
- harassing
- hard
- impeding
- inconvenient
- intrusive
- irksome
- irritating
- laborious
- ominous
- onerous
- painful
- perplexing
- perturbing
- pessimistic
- prophetic
- provoking
- severe
- sinister
- startling
- threatening
- tiresome
- toilsome
- troublesome
- troubling
- trying
- uncertain
- unpleasant
- unsettling
- upsetting
- vexing
- wearisome
- worrisome
- worrying
adjective as in unsettling
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adjective as in upsetting
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Example Sentences
It was dismaying, then, to find that I was too light in comparison to men who were then on the team to be taken seriously.
I can't remember any previous Cabinet appointee who handed in so dismaying a performance under senatorial questioning.
Keohane said she found the decline in high-profile women leadership since 2000 to be "dismaying."
Instead she presents a historical record at once dismaying and encouraging.
This danger Garnache, however, was no less quick to perceive, and with a dismaying promptness did he take his measures.
Into the half-year she has put a flattering success and a dismaying failure.
This might be so; but yet, how dismaying and hopeless to him the idea of carrying them into effect!
The boys wheeled abruptly, only to hear right in front of them a dismaying chorus of ghostly noises.
We all returned quite late in the evening, and the report of nothing killed was somewhat dismaying.
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On this page you'll find 520 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dismaying, such as: alarming, astounding, awful, dire, disheartening, and dreadful.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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