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dismal
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Travels with Charley
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- Even the cabin was dismal and damp.†
Part 2 *dismal = depressing or gloomy
- Indeed the dismal downpour made my intended visit to Niagara Falls seem redundant.†
Part 2
- I don't know how it is in other seasons, the summers may reek and rock with heat, the winters may groan with dismal cold, but when I saw it for the first and only time in early October, the air was rich with butter-colored sunlight, not fuzzy but crisp and clear so that every frost-gay tree was set off, the rising hills were not compounded, but alone and separate.†
Part 3
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)