disˈmayful, a.
[f. dismay n. + -ful.]
Full of or fraught with dismay; appalling.
| c 1586 C'tess Pembroke Ps. cv. ix. For cheerefull lightes dismayfull lightnings shine. 1596 Spenser F.Q. v. xi. 26 Much dismay'd with that dismayfull sight. 1628 R. Hobart Edw. II, cix, In that sad dismaifull houre of dying. 1876 G. Macdonald T. Wingfield vi, That thought of all most dismayful. |
Hence disˈmayfully adv., in dismay.
| 1596 Spenser F.Q. v. viii. 38 From which like mazed deare dismayfully they flew. |