Fluster vs Dismay - What's the difference?
fluster | dismay |
(dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
* Macaulay
(by extension) To confuse, befuddle, throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.
To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
* South
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:
As verbs the difference between fluster and dismay
is that fluster is to make hot and rosy, as with drinking while 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 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.fluster
English
Verb
- His habit of flustering himself daily with claret.
- He seemed to get flustered when speaking in front of too many people.
- The flustering , vainglorious Greeks.
Derived terms
* flustered (adjective) * flustering (adjective, present participle)Anagrams
* *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,