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[ adjective ] depressing in character or appearance

Examples

"drove through dingy streets" "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens "drab old buildings" "a dreary mining town" "gloomy tenements" "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams

Used in print

(Mignon G. Eberhart, The Cup, the Blade...)

She eyed the chickens with , if she had known it , something of Glendora 's dismal look and thought with a certain fury of the time she had spent on Latin verbs .

Related terms

cheerless

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[ adjective ] causing dejection

Examples

"a blue day" "the dark days of the war" "a week of rainy depressing weather" "a disconsolate winter landscape" "the first dismal dispiriting days of November" "a dark gloomy day" "grim rainy weather"

Related terms

cheerless

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