dismal

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dismal Definition

• (s) 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
• (s) 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"

dismal Synonyms

• blue
• dark
• depressing
• dingy
• disconsolate
• dismal
• dispiriting
• drab
• drear
• dreary
• gloomy
• grim
• sorry