Words Like DISMAL
We have put together a list of words that are similar to DISMAL.
17 Alternative Words Similar to dismal
7 examples of dismal
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a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.
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grim rainy weather
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a week of rainy depressing weather
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a dark gloomy day
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a disconsolate winter landscape
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the dark days of the war
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the first dismal dispiriting days of November
10 definitions of dismal
1
Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
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Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary
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Causing gloom or depression; dreary: dismal weather; took a dismal view of the economy.
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Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit: a dismal book; a dismal performance on the cello.
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Obsolete Dreadful; disastrous.
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Chiefly South Atlantic U.S. See pocosin. See Regional Note at pocosin.
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Gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy; doleful; dolorous: originally, as an adjective, in the phrase dismal day or dismal days (see etymology), whence it was extended to any visible physical surroundings, or anything perceived or apprehended, tending to depress or chill the spirits.
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See extract and etymology.
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Gloom; melancholy; dumps: usually in the plural, in the phrase in the dismals.