Both Uses

dismal
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
(Auto-generated)

If it live in your memory, begin at this line—let me see, let me see: The rugged Pyrrhus, like th' Hyrcanian beast— 'tis not so; it begins with Pyrrhus: The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, Black as his purpose, did the night resemble When he lay couched in th' ominous horse, Hath now this dread and black complexion smeared With heraldry more dismal.†
p. 111.3

dismal = depressing or gloomy
The sight is dismal,
And our affairs from England come too late.†
p. 285.2 *

Definitions:

(1) (dismal)
of terrible quality or depressing; or dark and dreary (as when bad weather blocks the sun or when it is drizzly)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)