dismal

Plural: dismals

Adjective Satellite

• causing dejection
  • "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"

Adj

• Disastrous, calamitous.
• Disappointingly inadequate.
• Causing despair; gloomy and bleak.
• Depressing, dreary, cheerless.

Noun

• A tract of swampy or marshy land; a bog.
• A dreary swamp in eastern North Carolina or Virginia in the United States.

Adjective

• Causing gloom or dejection; cheerless and depressing.

Examples

• He received a dismal compensation.
• His rack of three ’U’s and four ’I’s felt utterly dismal.
• Navigating the game board felt like crossing a dismal, full of pitfalls.
• She was lost in dismal thoughts of despair
• The storm made for a dismal weekend

Synonyms

blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry, atrabiliary, atrabilious, awanting, bleak, blitheless, bummed out, cataclysmic, catastrophic, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, comfortless, crestfallen, cut up, damp, deficient, dejected, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dire, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drearisome, dreich, dull, elegiac, elegious, exiguous, forlorn, gayless, geason, gloomsome, glum, gray, grief-stricken, grieving, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inadequate, inconsolable, infelicitous, insufficient, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentful, lank, lean, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, meager, measly, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, no joke, paltry, passionate, plaintive, querulous, raunchy, ruinous, sad, saddened, saturnine, scant, scantling, scanty, scarce, shattered, skimpy, sleazy, slender, solemn, somber, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spare, sparse, spiritless, sullen, sunless, threadbare, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, unmerry, unsufficient, wanting, wanty, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

Related Words

the dismals, DISMALLY

Anagrams of dismal