Dismay vs. Surprise — What's the Difference?

To cause to lose enthusiasm or resolution; disillusion or discourage

To cause to feel wonder, astonishment, or amazement, as at something unanticipated

To upset or distress

To encounter or discover suddenly or unexpectedly; take or catch unawares

A sudden or complete loss of courage in the face of trouble or danger.

To attack or capture suddenly and without warning

To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy

To cause (someone) to do or say something unintended or to be in an unintended condition

To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.

To elicit or detect through surprise

To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

The act of surprising or the condition of being surprised

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

Something, such as an unexpected encounter, event, or gift, that surprises.

Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

Something unexpected.

To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.

The feeling that something unexpected has happened.

To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.

(transitive) To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected.

To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

(transitive) To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.

Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

(intransitive) To undergo or witness something unexpected.

Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

(intransitive) To cause surprise.

The feeling of despair in the face of obstacles

(transitive) To attack unexpectedly.

Fear resulting from the awareness of danger

(transitive) To take unawares.

Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted;

The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.

Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised;

The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion excited by what is sudden and strange; a suddenly excited feeling of wonder or astonishment.

Anything that causes such a state or emotion.

A dish covered with a crust of raised paste, but with no other contents.

To come or fall suddenly and unexpectedly; to take unawares; to seize or capture by unexpected attack.

To strike with wonder, astonishment, or confusion, by something sudden, unexpected, or remarkable; to confound; as, his conduct surprised me.

To lead (one) to do suddenly and without forethought; to bring (one) into some unexpected state; - with into; as, to be surprised into an indiscretion; to be surprised into generosity.

To hold possession of; to hold.

The astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you

A sudden unexpected event

The act of surprising someone

Cause to be surprised;

Come upon or take unawares;

Attack by storm; attack suddenly