All 6 Uses
dismal
in
Macbeth
(Edited)
- Norway himself, with terrible numbers,
Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict.p. 13.1 - Norway himself, with terrible numbers,
Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict.p. 8.3 - This night I'll spend
Unto a dismal and a fatal end.p. 111.7 * - This night I'll spend
Unto a dismal and a fatal end.p. 122.7 * - and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't.p. 177.6 - and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't.p. 200.7
Definitions:
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(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)