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dismal
in
William Wilson
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—and a cloud, dense, dismal, and limitless, does it not hang eternally between thy hopes and heaven?†
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dismal = depressing or gloomy
It was very long, narrow, and dismally low, with pointed Gothic windows and a ceiling of oak.†
The teeming brain of childhood requires no external world of incident to occupy or amuse it; and the apparently dismal monotony of a school was replete with more intense excitement than my riper youth has derived from luxury, or my full manhood from crime.†

dismal = depressing or gloomy

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)