All 4 Uses
dismal
in
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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- Many dismal tales were told about funeral trains, and mourning cries and wailings heard and seen about the great tree where the unfortunate Major Andre was taken, and which stood in the neighborhood.†
dismal = depressing or gloomy
- The hour was as dismal as himself.†
- He had never felt so lonely and dismal.†
- Though the night was dark and dismal, yet the form of the unknown might now in some degree be ascertained.†
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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)