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Dismal

Dismal Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Dismal? [adj] causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [adj] depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams Synonyms \| Synonyms for Dismal: blue \| cheerless \| dark \| depressing \| dingy \| disconsolate \| dispiriting \| drab \| drear \| dreary \| gloomy \| grim \| sorry \| uncheerful Related Terms \| Find terms related to Dismal: acier \| affecting \| afflictive \| affording no hope \| apathetic \| arid \| ashen \| ashy \| barren \| bitter \| black \| blah \| blank \| bleak \| bloodless \| blue \| canescent \| Cassandra-like \| Cassandran \| Cassandrian \| characterless \| cheerless \| cinerary \| cinereous \| cinerous \| cold \| colorless \| comfortless \| cynical \| dapple \| dappled \| dappled-gray \| dapple-gray \| dark \| dead \| defeatist \| deplorable \| depressing \| depressive \| despairing \| desperate \| despondent \| dingy \| dirgelike \| discomforting \| disconsolate \| disheartening \| dismaying \| distressful \| distressing \| doleful \| dolorific \| dolorogenic \| dolorous \| dove-colored \| dove-gray \| downbeat \| draggy \| drear \| drearisome \| dreary \| dry \| dryasdust \| dull \| dusty \| effete \| elephantine \| empty \| epitaphic \| etiolated \| exequial \| fade \| feral \| flat \| forlorn \| funebrial \| funebrious \| funebrous \| funeral \| funerary \| funereal \| glaucescent \| glaucous \| gloomy \| grave \| gray \| gray-black \| gray-brown \| gray-colored \| gray-drab \| grayed \| gray-green \| grayish \| gray-spotted \| gray-toned \| gray-white \| grievous \| grim \| griseous \| grizzle \| grizzled \| grizzly \| heavy \| ho-hum \| hollow \| hopeless \| in despair \| inane \| inexcitable \| insipid \| iron-gray \| jejune \| joyless \| lamentable \| leaden \| lead-gray \| lifeless \| livid \| lowering \| low-spirited \| lugubrious \| melancholy \| miserable \| morose \| mortuary \| mournful \| mouse-colored \| mouse-gray \| mousy \| moving \| necrological \| negative \| negativistic \| nihilistic \| obituary \| obsequial \| oppressive \| painful \| pale \| pallid \| pathetic \| pearl \| pearl-gray \| pearly \| pedestrian \| pessimist \| pessimistic \| piteous \| pitiable \| plodding \| poignant \| pointless \| poky \| ponderous \| Quaker-colored \| regrettable \| rueful \| sad \| saddening \| saturnine \| sepulchral \| sharp \| silver \| silvered \| silver-gray \| silvery \| slate-colored \| slaty \| slow \| smoke-gray \| smoky \| sober \| solemn \| somber \| sombrous \| sore \| sorrowful \| spiritless \| steel-gray \| steely \| sterile \| stiff \| stodgy \| stone-colored \| stuffy \| superficial \| tasteless \| taupe \| tedious \| touching \| triste \| uncheerful \| uncomfortable \| unhappy \| unhopeful \| unlively \| vapid \| weariful \| wearisome \| weary \| without hope \| woebegone \| woeful \| wooden \| wretched See Also \| Dismal In Webster's Dictionary \Dis"mal\, a. [Formerly a noun; e. g., ``I trow it was in the dismalle.'' Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. d[^i]me, tithe, the phrase dismal day properly meaning, the day when tithes must be paid. See {Dime}.] 1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.] An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. --Spenser. 2. Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. --Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. --Southey. Syn: Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill-boding; fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous; calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy; unfortunate; unhappy.

Dismal Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dismal?

[adj] causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
[adj] depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams

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Dismal In Webster's Dictionary

\Dis"mal\, a. [Formerly a noun; e. g., ``I trow it was in
the dismalle.'' Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as
suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. d[^i]me, tithe, the
phrase dismal day properly meaning, the day when tithes must
be paid. See {Dime}.]
1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.]

         An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. --Spenser.

2. Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the
   feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a
   dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.

         Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd
         the dismal tidings when he frowned.   --Goldsmith.

         A dismal description of an English November.
                                               --Southey.

Syn: Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill-boding;
     fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous;
     calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy;
     unfortunate; unhappy.

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