dismaying (adj.)
- affecting
- afflictive
- alarming
- awing
- baffling
- bitter
- bleak
- cheerless
- chilling
- comfortless
- confounding
- confusing
- daunting
- deplorable
- depressing
- depressive
- deterrent
- disconcerting
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dismal
- disquieting
- distressful
- distressing
- disturbing
- dolorous
- dreary
- embarrassing
- enigmatic
- fearful
- fearsome
- frightening
- frightful
- grievous
- intricate
- joyless
- lamentable
- mournful
- moving
- mysterious
- mystifying
- painful
- pathetic
- perplexing
- perturbing
- piteous
- pitiable
- poignant
- problematic
- puzzling
- regrettable
- rueful
- sad
- scary
- sharp
- sore
- sorrowful
- startling
- touching
- uncomfortable
- upsetting
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
