Noun

• S: (n) discouragement, disheartenment, dismay (the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles)
• S: (n) alarm, dismay, consternation (fear resulting from the awareness of danger)
• attribute
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) fear, fearfulness, fright (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))
• S: (n) emotion (any strong feeling)
• S: (n) feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states) "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual"
• S: (n) state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes) "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
• S: (n) attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form

Verb

• S: (v) depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise (lower someone's spirits; make downhearted) "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
• S: (v) dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify (fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised) "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"