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Definition

of terrible quality or depressing; or dark and dreary (as when bad weather blocks the sun or when it is drizzly)

dismal = terrible

dismal = depressing

dismal = dreary (as when bad weather blocks the sun or when it is drizzly)

dismal = terrible or depressing

dismal = terrible

dismal = terrible

dismal = terrible or depressing

Advancing more and more into the shadow of this mournful place, its dark depressing influence stole upon their spirits, and filled them with a dismal gloom.
Charles Dickens -- The Old Curiosity Shop
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
The dismal truth was filtering through to everybody.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

dismal = depressing

Cautiously he reaches his hand to his behind and looks at me dismally.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

dismally = in a depressed manner

I declare, when I got back to Sotherton yesterday, it looked like a prison—quite a dismal old prison.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

dismal = gloomy or depressing

Devon is sometimes considered the most beautiful school in New England, and even on this dismal afternoon its power was asserted.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

dismal = gloomy (wet and overcast)

The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

dismal = depressing or gloomy

The valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul river, and, when the drawbridge is up to let barges through, the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

dismal = depressing

At this dismal time we were evidently all possessed by the idea that we were followed.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

dismal = depressing or gloomy

This dismal shade must separate me from the world:
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Minister's Black Veil

dismal = depressing

If you think it ain't dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way by yourself in the night, you try it once—you'll see.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

dismal = depressing or gloomy

dismally = depressingly

In the dismal weather, it would have been difficult with both hands, but with just the one, it was impossible.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

dismal = terrible (wet and overcast)

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