dismayfully

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adverb

In dismay.

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Meanings

adverbdismayfully (comparative more dismayfully, superlative most dismayfully)

comparative more dismayfully · superlative most dismayfully

  1. rareIn dismay.

    Nought feared they what he could do or say, / But th'onely feare that was before their vew, / From which like mazed deare dismayfully they flew.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From dismayful + -ly.

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APA

dismayfully. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dismayfully

MLA

“dismayfully.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dismayfully. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dismayfully,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dismayfully.

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