Usually means: Causing feelings of distress, alarm.
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  1. dismayful: Merriam-Webster
  2. dismayful: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dismayful: Wordnik
  4. dismayful: Wiktionary
  5. Dismayful: Dictionary.com
  6. Dismayful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. dismayful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Dismayful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. dismayful: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Dismayful: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (dismayful)

adjective:  (obsolete) Terrifying
adjective:  (obsolete) Dismaying; disheartening.
adjective:  (obsolete) Dismayed; full of disappointment or low spirits.

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