All 16 Uses of
dismal
in
Dante's Inferno
- When the hostile Sovereign shall come, each one will find again his dismal tomb, will take again his flesh and his shape, will hear that which through eternity reechoes.†
Canto 4-6
- A marsh it makes, that is named Styx, this dismal little stream, when it has descended to the foot of the malign gray slopes.†
Canto 7-9
- Into this depth of the dismal shell does any one ever descend from the first grade who has for penalty only hope cut off?†
Canto 7-9
- Our descent must needs be slow so that the sense may first accustom itself a little to the dismal blast, and then will be no heed of it.†
Canto 10-12
- Here the foul Harpies make their nests, who chased the Trojans from the Strophades with dismal announcement of future calamity.†
Canto 13-15
- The harlot,[2] that never from the abode of Caear turned her strumpet eyes,—the common death and vice of courts,—inflamed all minds against me, and they, inflamed, did so inflame Augustus that my glad honors turned to dismal sorrows.†
Canto 13-15
- The woeful wood is a garland round about it, even as the dismal foss to that.†
Canto 13-15 *
- Amid this cruel and most dismal store were running people naked and in terror, without hope of hole or heliotrope.†
Canto 22-24
- And the sinner who heard dissembled not, but directed toward me his mind and his face, and was painted with dismal shame.†
Canto 22-24
- The prophecy is dismal to Dante, because it was with the Whites, whose overthrow Vanni Fucci foretells, that his own fortunes were linked.†
Canto 22-24
- Truly cask, by losing mid-board or cross-piece, is not so split open as one I saw cleft from the chin to where the wind is broken: between his legs were hanging his entrails, his inner parts were visible, and the dismal sack that makes ordure of what is swallowed.†
Canto 28-30
- I saw in truth, and still I seem to see it, a trunk without a head going along even as the others of the dismal flock were going.†
Canto 28-30
- But Virgil said to me, "What art thou still watching? why is thy sight still fixed down there among the dismal mutilated shades?†
Canto 28-30
- This one over the belly, and that over the shoulders of another was lying, and this one, crawling, was shifting himself along the dismal path.†
Canto 28-30
- "Oh ye, who are without any punishment, and I know not why, in the dismal world," said he to us, "look and attend to the misery of Master Adam.†
Canto 28-30
- If I had rhymes both harsh and raucous, such as would befit the dismal hole on which thrust[1] all the other rocks, I would press out the juice of my conception more fully; but since I have them not, not without fear I bring myself to speak; for to describe the bottom of the whole universe is no enterprise to take up in jest, nor a tongue that cries mamma or babbo.†
Canto 31-34
Definition:
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(dismal) of terrible quality or depressing; or dark and dreary (as when bad weather blocks the sun or when it is drizzly)