Clues for the word "DISMAY"
We've had 44 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 72 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on October 17, 2025.
Definition of dismay
- v. i. - To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
- v. i. - To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
- v. i. - To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
- v. t. - Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
- v. t. - Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
Referring Clues
- Unnerve
- "My soul is full of discord and ___": "Hamlet"
- Perturbation
- Consternate
- Loss of heart
- Consternation
- Unpleasantly surprise
- Daunt
- Perturb
- "...let nothing you ---"
- Blue state?
- Appall
- Fill with apprehension
- Discourage
- Dishearten thoroughly
- Upset state
- Alarm
- Consternation when boy turns up with girl
- Consternation caused by vegetables I'd raised
- "Jockin' Mike D to my ___" (Beastie Boys)
- Talk rudely to leader, creating alarm
- Apprehension in stock markets, initially within 24 hours
- Dishearten
- Fill with consternation
- A girl's time of sorrow
- The man turns on the woman, to one's consternation
- Diamonds with income support? - Home Secretary's alarm
- Consternation at sweet potatoes I'd brought up
- Is medium in time to give alarm?
- The underworld might unnerve
- Give the underworld boss a month and cause consternation
- Vicious recession has PM in shock
- Day breaking to hide doctrine of alarm
- Days I'm out cause concern
- Pluto might cause consternation
- Vegetables I had to return, upset
- Hell might be appalling
- M pursuing police officers in upset state
- If B was Brown and C was Cameron ... oh dear!
- Consternation caused by vegetables I'd brought back
- The maid's awfully young, to one's perturbation
- Feeling of despair
- Sudden loss of courage
- Shake deeply
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - October 17, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 28, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 02, 2025
- New York Times - February 10, 2025
- New York Times - December 19, 2024
- LA Times - December 12, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 01, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 28, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 08, 2023
- LA Times - March 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - March 09, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - October 13, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - September 22, 2017
- Guardian Prize - September 02, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - August 28, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - July 12, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - July 10, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - July 08, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 09, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 02, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - March 16, 2017
- Guardian Speedy - March 12, 2017
- LA Times - February 17, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - December 14, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 17, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 15, 2016
- LA Times - November 28, 2015
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