Thesaurus
Synonyms and Antonyms of dismaying
- the imposing climb up the mountain dismayed us even before we got started
- parents who became increasingly dismayed by their son's foundering marriage
agitating, ailing, alarming (also alaruming), bothering, concerning, derailing, discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, distempering, distracting, distressing, disturbing, exercising, flurrying, frazzling, freaking (out), fussing, hagriding, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, weirding out, worrying
aggravating, angering, annoying, bugging, chafing, chivying (or chivvying), exasperating, fretting, galling, getting, grating, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting off, putting out, riling, vexing
bedeviling, haunting, plaguing
abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, jarring, mortifying, nonplussing (also nonplusing), rattling, shaking up
daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, unnerving
calming, composing, quieting, settling, soothing, tranquilizing (also tranquillizing)
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