Dismay vs Displeased - What's the difference?
dismay | displeased |
A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
* Bible, Josh. i. 9
* Fairfax
To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
* Spenser
To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
* 1592 , , III. iii. 1:
(displease)
To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with'' or ''at . It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxv. 5 (Book of Common Prayer)
To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To give displeasure or offense.
As verbs the difference between dismay and displeased
is that dismay is to disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify while displeased is (displease).As a noun dismay
is a sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.dismay
English
Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed .
- What words be these? What fears do you dismay ?
- Do not dismay yourself for this.
- Dismay not, princes, at this accident,
displeased
English
Verb
(head)displease
English
Verb
- The boy's rudeness displeased me.
- Wilt thou be displeased at us forever?
- I shall displease my ends else.