Dismay vs Grieved - What's the difference?
dismay | grieved |
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:
(grieve)
To cause sorrow or distress to.
* Bible, Eph. iv. 30
* Cowper
To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
To experience grief.
(archaic) To harm.
To submit or file a grievance.
* 2009 D'Amico, Rob , Editor, Texas Teacher , published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14:
(obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
(chiefly, Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
* Sir Walter Scott
As verbs the difference between dismay and grieved
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 grieved is past tense of grieve.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,
grieved
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*grieve
English
Etymology 1
From the conjugated forms of (etyl) .Verb
(griev)- Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.
- The maidens grieved themselves at my concern.
- to grieve one's fate
- Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the [...] Board of Trustees.
Derived terms
* grieved * griever * grievinglyEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve .