About The Word Dismal
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Dismal
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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.
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