different between misery vs dismay

misery

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French miserie (modern: misère), from Latin miseria, from miser. Doublet of misère.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?z(?)??/
  • (General American) enPR: m?z??-r?, m?z?r?, IPA(key): /?m?z(?)?i/
  • Hyphenation: mis?ery

Noun

misery (countable and uncountable, plural miseries)

  1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
  2. (US and Britain, dialects) A bodily ache or pain.
    • 1868, John Vestal Hadley, Seven Months a Prisoner, page 15:
      [...] and I had a misery in my left breast and shoulder. I was hurt, but knew not how or how much.
  3. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
  4. (Extreme) poverty.
  5. (archaic) greed; avarice.

Synonyms

  • see Thesaurus:greed

Derived terms

  • put out of one's misery

Related terms

  • commiserate
  • miser
  • miserable

Translations

Anagrams

  • Myries

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dismay

English

Etymology

From Middle English dismayen, from Anglo-Norman *desmaiier, alteration of Old French esmaier (to frighten), probably from Vulgar Latin *exmagare (to deprive (someone) of strength, to disable), from ex- + *magare (to enable, empower), from Proto-Germanic *magin?, *magan? (might, power), from Proto-Indo-European *meg?- (to be able). Akin to Old High German magan, megin (power, might, main), Old English mæ?en (might, main), Old High German magan, mugan (to be powerful, able), Old English magan (to be able). Cognate with Portuguese desmaiar (to faint). See also Portuguese esmagar, Spanish amagar. More at main, may.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d?s?me?/
  • Rhymes: -e?

Verb

dismay (third-person singular simple present dismays, present participle dismaying, simple past and past participle dismayed)

  1. To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy
    Synonyms: daunt, appall, terrify
    • 1611, King James Version, Josh. i. 9
      Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.
    • What words be these? What fears do you dismay?
  2. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
  3. To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
    • 1592, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, III. iii. 1:
      Dismay not, princes, at this accident,
Translations

Noun

dismay (uncountable)

  1. 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
    Synonym: consternation
    • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I Scene 3
      Come on: in this there can be no dismay;
      My ships come home a month before the day.
  2. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

Translations

Anagrams

  • yidams

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