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Defenition of the word dismal

    • Defenition of the word dismal

      • Making despondent or depressive.
      • 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"
      • 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
      • causing dejection

    Synonyms for the word dismal

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

    Similar words in the dismal

      • cheerless
      • uncheerful

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