English-Spanish translations for dismay

  • consternaciónQuisiera expresar mi consternación y repugnancia por dichas actuaciones. I wish to express my dismay and disgust at those actions. Consternación porque la actuación de la Comisión es incoherente. Dismay, because the Commission's approach is inconsistent. Todo ello implica una falta de realismo y traerá más burocracia y más consternación. This is just more unreality, more bureaucracy and more dismay.
  • consternarEntretanto, estaría bien que considerara cómo la legislación de la UE puede confundir y consternar a las pequeñas empresas, si no se explica y aplica de forma idónea. In the meantime, he might like to ponder how EU labelling legislation can confuse and dismay small businesses if not properly explained and implemented.
  • desalentar
  • espanto
  • estupefacción
  • perplejidad

Definition of dismay

  • To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy
  • To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet
  • To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay
  • 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
  • Condition fitted to dismay; ruin

Examples

  • He looked in dismay at the destruction of the town caused by the hurricane

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