Dismay vs Hopeless - What's the difference?
dismay | hopeless |
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:
Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
* (William Shakespeare)
*, chapter=15
, title= Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
Without talent, not skilled
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.As a verb 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.As an adjective hopeless is
without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.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,
hopeless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I am a woman, friendless, hopeless .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
- He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.