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1. (adj.) dismal
causing gloom or dejection; dreary; cheerless.
2. dismal
characterized by ineptness or lack of skill or interest.
3. dismal
Obs.
4. dismal
calamitous.
5. (n.) dismal
Southern U.S. a tract of swampy land.
Etymology: (1275–1325; ME dismale unlucky time, dismol day one of two days in each month considered unlucky (hence later taken as adj.) < AF dis mal < ML diēs malī lit., evil days)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
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"
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1. (adjective) dismal
making you feel miserable
a dismal rainy day
2. dismal
extremely bad
a dismal attempt; The meeting ended dismally.
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) dismal
fatal; ill-omened; unlucky
2. (adj) dismal
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
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Sense: gloomy
dismal news; Don't look so dismal!
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 Afrikaans: droewig, treurig, weemoed |
 Arabic: كَئيب، مُحْزِن |
 Bulgarian: мрачен |
 Brazilian: triste |
 Czech: chmurný, ponurý, smutný |
 German: düster |
 Danish: dyster |
 Greek: καταθλιπτικός, μελαγχολικ |
 Spanish: deprimente, triste, desal |
 Estonian: sünge |
 Farsi: دلگیر؛ حزن انگیز |
 Finnish: synkkä |
 French: lugubre |
 Hebrew: קוֹדֵר, מְדוּכָּא |
 Hindi: निराशा जनक, निराशापूर्ण |
 Croatian: mračan, potišten |
 Hungarian: komor |
 Indonesian: muram |
 Icelandic: dapurlegur |
 Italian: lugubre, triste |
 Japanese: 陰うつな |
 Korean: 음침한, 음울한 |
 Lithuanian: niūrus, rūškanas |
 Latvian: drūms; nospiedošs |
 Malay: muram |
 Dutch: ellendig, somber |
 Norwegian: mørk og trist, dyster |
 Polish: posępny |
 Persian: دلگیر؛ حزن انگیز |
 Pashto: سوړ، مړ اوى، غمجن |
 Portuguese: triste |
 Romanian: trist, deprimat |
 Russian: мрачный; унылый |
 Slovak: bezútešný, smutný |
 Slovenian: zlovešč; mračen |
 Serbian: pesimističan |
 Swedish: dyster |
 Thai: หดหู่ |
 Turkish: kasvetli, iç karartıcı |
 Taiwanese: 憂鬱的 |
 Ukrainian: пригнічений; похмурий |
 Urdu: افسردہ |
 Vietnamese: buồn thảm |
 Chinese: 忧郁的 |
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