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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Dismal \Dis"mal\, a. [Formerly a noun; e. g., ``I trow it was in
     the dismalle.'' Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as
     suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. d[^i]me, tithe, the
     phrase dismal day properly meaning, the day when tithes must
     be paid. See Dime.]
     1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
              An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. --Spenser.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the
        feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a
        dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Full well the busy whisper, circling round,
              Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              A dismal description of an English November.
                                                    --Southey.
  
     Syn: Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill-boding;
          fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous;
          calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy;
          unfortunate; unhappy.
          [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Dismal \Dis"mal\, a. [Formerly a noun; e. g., ``I trow it was in
     the dismalle.'' Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as
     suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. d[^i]me, tithe, the
     phrase dismal day properly meaning, the day when tithes must
     be paid. See Dime.]
     1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.]
  
              An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. --Spenser.
  
     2. Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the
        feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a
        dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.
  
              Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd
              the dismal tidings when he frowned.   --Goldsmith.
  
              A dismal description of an English November.
                                                    --Southey.
  
     Syn: Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill-boding;
          fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous;
          calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy;
          unfortunate; unhappy.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  dismal
       adj 1: depressing in character or appearance; "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 [syn: dingy, drab, drear,
               dreary, gloomy, sorry]
       2: causing dejection; "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" [syn:
           blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dispiriting,
           gloomy, grim]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  dismal
     a.
     1 Disastrous, calamitous
     2 Disappointingly inadequate.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  dismal
     a.
     1 Disastrous, calamitous
     2 Disappointingly inadequate.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  dismal
     a.
     1 Disastrous, calamitous
     2 Disappointingly inadequate.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  dismal
     a.
     1 Disastrous, calamitous
     2 Disappointingly inadequate.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  dismal
     Englanti a.
     1 synkkä
     2 surkea, kurja

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  dismal
     Engelska a.
     dyster, mörk, olycklig, sorglig

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-afr ]


  dismal /dˈɪzməl/
  1. alledaags, banaal
  2. beklaaglik, beklaenswaardig, beklagenswaardig
  3. aaklig, onaangenaam
  4. afsigtelik
  5. donker
  6. bedruk
  7. bedroewend
  8. beroerd

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Dismal /dˈɪzməl/
  كئيب

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  dismal //ˈdɪzməl// 
  1. тъ́жен, уни́л
  depressing
  2. мра́чен
  gloomy and bleak