'Dismal' definitions:

Definition of 'dismal'

(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]

Definition of 'Dismal'

From: GCIDE
  • Dismal \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.] [1913 Webster]
  • An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'dismal'

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Words containing 'Dismal'