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Meaning of 'dismal' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Dismal [ a.]
- Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
- 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.

Meaning of 'dismal' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . dismal [ s]
Meaning (1):
- causing dejection
Example in sentence:
  • a blue day;
  • a dark gloomy day;
  • a disconsolate winter landscape;
  • a week of rainy depressing weather;
  • grim rainy weather;
  • the dark days of the war;
  • the first dismal dispiriting days of November

Nearby Words:

dis dis- disabilities disability disable disabled disablement disabling disabuse disabused

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