Dismal

Definition: Dismal

Dismal

Adjective

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.

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".

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Date "dismal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Literature

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Synonyms: Dismal

Contempt

Phrase: "a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn"; "I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman".

Dejection

Adjective: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery; unlively; unhappy; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful.

Pain

Distressing; afflicting, afflictive; joyless, cheerless, comfortless; dismal, disheartening; depressing, depressive; dreary, melancholy, grievous, piteous; woeful, rueful, mournful, deplorable, pitiable, lamentable; sad, affecting, touching, pathetic.

Crosswords: Dismal

You meet at certain dismal dull affairs. (19TH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN; performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

Dismal Universal Hiss (1988)

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Books

• A Brief History of Economics: Artful Approaches to the Dismal Science (reference)

• A Dismal Thing to Do (reference)

• Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (Penguin Classics) (reference)

• Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (reference)

• Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dismal Euphony: Lady Ablaze (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Pointless Walks to Dismal Places (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The Northern Water Snake - Nerodia sipedon sipedon - a common, non-venoemous water snake. Often mistaken for the Eastern Cottonmouth or Water Mocassin, Agkistrodon piscivorus. The known range for the latter does not extend further north than the Great Dismal Swamp. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Scene in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And both children looked uneasy at the dismal suggestion.

It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.

One brief sigh sufficed to carry off the entire burden of these dismal reminiscences.

There were some very dismal outlines there.

Their dismal scream is truly Ben Jonsonian.

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Health

In contrast, diagnosis and treatment in late stages often have dismal results. (references)

No single approach works for all immunodeficiencies or in all cases but, taken together, these new treatments have transformed a dismal prognosis into one of hope and promise. (references)

Business

Nurses, on the other hand, are in critical demand as their salaries are dismal and as yet, there are no notable incentives for becoming a nurse. (references)

Nearing the end of what is promising to be a dismal year, Kazakhstan's medical equipment and supplies market is expected to rebound sharply in 2001. This is the result of pent-up demand in the country after many years of inadequate healthcare budgets. (references)

Lesotho is landlocked and entirely surrounded by South Africa and is one of the smallest countries in Africa with only two million inhabitants The country's mineral resources are dismal, but its mountain water resources are its most valuable natural asset. (references)

Economic History

Nicaragua

Maquila (assembly for export) was a bright spot in the otherwise dismal manufacturing sector. (references)

Japan

The Japanese economy shrank 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2001, and the figure for the second quarter is expected to be even more dismal. (references)

Bolivia

Certain acts of corruption are illegal under specific provisions of laws, and laws and institutions are being strengthened to improve this dismal record. (references)

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Expression using "dismal": dismal face. Additional references.

Afrikaans

onaangenaam (bleak, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty), donker (bleak, dark, dim, dreary), alledaags (commonplace, daily, trite), beroerd (abject, bad, meager, miserable, nasty, poor, wretched), beklagenswaardig (miserable, pitiful, poor), beklaenswaardig (miserable, pitiful, poor), beklaaglik (miserable, pitiful, poor), bedruk (dejected, depressed, gaunt, miserable, print, sad), bedroewend (miserable), banaal (commonplace, trite), afsigtelik (dreary, horrible, nasty), aaklig (bleak, dreary, ghastly, grisly, hideous, horrible, nasty). (various references)

Albanian

i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i vrerët (austere, gloomy), i vrenjtur (cloudy, disagreeable, lowering, overcast, saturnine), i ngrysur (dark, farouche, gloomy, heavy, lowering, lugubrious, morose, saturnine, somber, sombre, sulky, sullen, woebegone), i mjerë (abject, crummy, desolate, forlorn, ill fated, ill-starred, infelicitous, lowlife, miserable, paltry, penurious, pimping, piteous, sorry, unhappy, unlucky, worm), i dëshpëruar (depressed, depressing, desperate, despondent, disconsolate, downcast, forlorn, heavyhearted, hopeless, sad). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏موحش (drear, gloomy), ‏مغم (bleak, disconsolate, grievous), ‏محزن (depressing, distressing, doleful, dolorous, gloomy, grievous, mournful, pathetic, rueful, sad, saddening, sorrowful, tragic, woeful), ‏قابض للصدر. (various references)

Bavarian

dung (bleak, dark, dreary). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слабоват (feeble, pimping), тъжен (bleak, cheerless, desolate, disconsolate, distressed, doleful, dull, dusky, elegiac, gloomy, heavy, joyless, lonesome, lugubrious, melancholy, minor, mirthless, mournful, pensive, plaintive, sad, sick, sickly, sorrowful, tristful, wan, wistful, woebegone, woeful), некадърен (dud, feckless, incapable, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, shiftless, wet, worthless), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful), блатиста местност (glade, marshland). (various references)

Chinese 

暗淡 (dim, faint, gloomy), 忧郁 (melancholy, moodiness). (various references)

Czech

ubohý (crappy, deplorable, dingy, down in the mouth, grotty, miserable, paltry, pitiable, poor, sleazy, wretched), tristní (depressing), smutný (distressing, doleful, elegiac, gloomy, miserable, plaintive, sad, sorrowful, tearful, unhappy, upset, woeful, woesome), ponurý (black, cheerless, dark, gaunt, gloomy, grim, lurid, somber, sombre), pochmurný (bleak, depressing, gloomy, lugubrious, subdued), nevlídný (gruff, inclement, rugged, sour, stern, surly, testy, uncongenial, unfriended, unfriendly, unkind), neveselý (dreary, gloomy, mirthless), neutìšený (cheerless, Gray, grey, unpleasant), neradostný (cheerless, joyless), mizerný (abysmal, bad, bleeding, bum, cheap, crappy, crummy, foul, lousy, miserable, painful, paltry, rotten, stingy, tinpot, vile, wretched), chmurný (drear, dreary, dull, gloomy, Gray, grey, grim). (various references)

Danish

mørk (bleak, dark, dim, dreary), bedrøvet (dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad). (various references)

Dutch

droevig (gaunt, miserable, sad, sadly), droef (gaunt, mallet, miserable, sad), donker (bleak, dark, darkness, dim, dreary, murk, obscure), beklagenswaardig (miserable, pitiful, poor), erbarmelýk (miserable, pitiful, poor), ellendig (abject, meager, miserable, miserably, wretched), chagrýnig, bewolkt (cloudy, dreary), afgezaagd (commonplace, hackneyed, hard-worked, stale, trite, worn-out), belabberd (abject, meager, miserable, wretched), miserabel (abject, meager, miserable, wretched), bedroevend (deplorable, miserable, pitiable, sad), bedroefd (dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad), banaal (commonplace, trite), alledaags (common, commonplace, daily, everyday, trite, vulgar), akelig (bleak, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty), afzichtelýk (dreary, horrible, nasty), afschuwelýk (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, nasty), afgrýselýk (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, nasty), betrokken (concerned, dreary, in question), schunnig (abject, base, low, meager, miserable, nasty, obscene, vile, wretched), vervelend (bleak, boring, bothersome, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty, stodgy, tiresome, weary), verdrietig (fretful, gaunt, miserable, morose, peevish, sad, sadly, sorrowful, sullen), verdrietelýk (bleak, deplorable, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty, pitiable, sad), troosteloos (desolate, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, mournful), triestig (bleak, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, somber, sullen), triest (dreary, sad, sadly), treurig (dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad), stumperig (abject, awkward, clumsy, meager, miserable, wretched), foeilelýk (dreary, horrible, nasty), smartelýk (miserable, painful), gewoontjes (commonplace, trite), schamel (abject, meager, miserable, poor, wretched), plat (common, commonplace, course, everyday, flat, plateau, trite, vulgar), onaangenaam (bleak, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty), nietszeggend (commonplace, trite), naargeestig (bleak, desolate, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, miserable, mournful, sad, somber, sullen), naar (about, according as, according to, along, as, bleak, by, dreary, for, ghastly, grisly, horrible, ill, long for, nasty, sick, to, toward, towards, untranslated, unwell, yearn), mistroostig (bleak, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, somber, sullen), zielig (miserable, pitiful, poor), somber (bleak, dark, desolate, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, miserable, mournful, sad, somber, sullen). (various references)

Esperanto

trista (dreary, sad), paŭta, morna (desolate, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, mournful), mizera (abject, meager, miserable, wretched), melankolia (bleak, dreary, gaunt, melancholy), malserena (dreary), malhela (bleak, dark, dreary), malgaja (bleak, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, somber), malbelega (dreary, horrible, nasty), malĝojiga (miserable), malĝoja (gaunt, miserable, sad), malagrabla (bleak, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty), kompatinda (miserable, pitiful, poor), banala (commonplace, trite), abomena (dreary, ghastly, hideous, horrible, nasty). (various references)

Faeroese

dapur (desolate, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, mournful, sad), tyngjandi (desolate, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, mournful), syrgin (dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad), syrgiligur (bleak, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, somber, sullen), neyðars (abject, meager, miserable, poor, wretched), neyðar (abject, meager, miserable, wretched), múlatrútin (fretful, morose, peevish, sullen), illa hýrdur (dreary, sad), óglaður (bleak, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, somber, sullen). (various references)

Farsi 

پریشان کننده , ملالت انگیز, دلتنگ کننده (Dreary, Stuffy). (various references)

Finnish

surullinen (dreary, grieved, sad, sorrowful). (various references)

French

sombre (dim, dingy, dirty), triste (disconsolate, distressing), repoussant, morne, banal, abominable. (various references)

Frisian

drôf (bleak, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, somber, sullen), donker (bleak, dark, dreary), deisk (commonplace, daily, trite), sljochtweihinne (commonplace, trite), skiterich (abject, meager, miserable, wretched), heukerich (abject, meager, miserable, poor, wretched), fertrietlik (gaunt, miserable, sad), ferdrietlik (bleak, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, somber, sullen), earmoedig (abject, meager, miserable, wretched), earmhertich (abject, meager, miserable, wretched), aaklik (bleak, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty), ûnhuerich (dreary, horrible, nasty, quite, very, very much), ûnhuer (dreary, horrible, nasty). (various references)

German

düster (black, bleak, cheerless, dark, dim, dingy, drab, dreary, dusky, forbidding, frowning, funereal, funereally, gaunt, gloomily, gloomy, Gray, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, sepulcher, sinister, somber, somberly, sombre, sullen), trostlos (bleak, bleakly, cheerless, comfortless, comfortlessly, desolate, desolately, disconsolate, dismally, dreary, grimly, hopeless, inconsolable, miserable, wretched). (various references)

Greek 

κατηφήσ (dour, joyless, low-spirited, mirthless, sad, sullen), μελαγχολικόσ (blue, broody, depressed, despondent, joyless, melancholic, melancholy, somber, sombre, wistful), ζοφερόσ (cheerless, gloomy, mirk, murk, somber, sombre, tenebrous). (various references)

Hebrew 

ע�'ום (bleak, cheerless, disconsolate, doleful, dusky, funereal, gloomy, morose, mournful, rueful, sorrowful, sullen). (various references)

Hungarian

szomorú (blue, cheerless, disconsolate, distressed, doleful, down in the mouth, drear, dreary, face as long as a fiddle, grievous, heart broken, joyless, long-faced, melancholy, mirthless, mopish, mournful, pained, piteous, pitiable, plaintive, sad, sorrowful, to be in the dumps, tristful), lehangoló (damper, depressing, depressive, disconcerting, distressing, humping, trying), komor (beetle brows, black, dark, darksome, dingy, funereal, gaunt, gloomy, glum, louring, lowering, lugubrious, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, surly, to be down in the dumps). (various references)

Icelandic

dapur (bleak, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, somber, sullen), viðbjóðslegur (dreary, ghastly, hideous, horrible, nasty), hræðilegur (abysmal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, nasty, terrible), fúll, óþægilegur (bleak, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty). (various references)

Indonesian

suram (bleak, dim, dreary, gloom, grim), sedih (disconsolate, dispirited, distressed, sad, soleful). (various references)

Irish

brónach (gaunt, miserable). (various references)

Italian

triste (black, bleak, blue, blue-deviled, blue-devilled, cheerless, dark, dejected, disconsolate, doleful, dreary, dull, dusky, gaunt, gloomy, heavy, hipped, lachrymose, miserable, moody, moped, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, wan, woebegone), spiacevole (bleak, disconcerting, displeasing, dreary, embarassing, evil, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, miserable, nasty, regrettable, sticky, uncomfortable, unpleasant), sgradevole (bad, bleak, disagreeable, distasteful, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unsightly), scuro (black, bleak, dark, dim, dingy, dreary, dull, overcast, somber, sombre, swarthy), schifoso (disgusting, dreadful, dreary, foul, horrible, lousy, nasty, poisonous, revolting, rotten, verminous), povero (abject, arm, bare, beggarly, indigent, meager, meagre, miserable, needy, poor, poor man, unfortunate, wretched), mostruoso (abominable, awful, dreary, enormous, hideous, horrible, Mega, monster, monstrous, nasty, rotten, undelightful, vast), misero (abject, forlorn, meager, mean, miserable, narrow, poor, poverty stricken, scanty, spare, squalid, unfortunate, wretched), miserabile (abject, despicable, meager, mean, measly, miserable, misery, poor, poverty stricken, sorry, unhappiness, wretch, wretched, wretchedness), buio (black, bleak, dark, darkness, dreary, gloom, gloominess, murkiness, night, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness), banale (banal, common, commonplace, corny, hackneyed, mundane, platitudinous, prosy, trite, trivial), afflitto (bleak, destressed, dreary, gaunt, miserable, mournful, pained, sad, somber, sorrowful, sorrowing, sorry, sullen, unhappy), abominevole (abominable, beastly, dreary, ghastly, hideous, horrible, nasty, nefarious). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

陰気臭い (gloomy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

い�"きくさい (gloomy). (various references)

Manx

trimshagh (affecting; lamentation; sad person, baleful, grievous, heavy, heavy sorrowful, lugubrious, miserable, mournful, plaintive, sad, saddened, sorrowful, sorrowful person), meevaynrey (infelicitous, miserable, unhappy), grouw (dark, dark-looking, dejected, forbidding, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grim, surly), doolagh (broody, broody of person, downcast, miserable). (various references)

Norwegian

sturen (bleak, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, somber, sullen). (various references)

Papiamen

desagradabel (bleak, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty), tristu (bleak, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, somber, sullen), miserabel (abject, meager, miserable, wretched), feroso (abysmal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, nasty, terrible), feros (abysmal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, nasty, terrible), abominabel (abhorrent, abject, abominable, abysmal, alien, awful, disdainful, disgusting, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, nasty, nauseous, terrible). (various references)

Pig Latin

ismalday

Polish

smutny (bleak, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, somber, sullen). (various references)

Portuguese

sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, dim, dingy, doleful, dreary, dun-bird, dusk, dust, ebon, funereal, fuscous, gaunt, gauntlet, gloomily, gloomy, glum, grave, hard-hearted, lowering, mirk, miserable, misty, morose, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, somber, sombre, stygian, umbrageous). (various references)

Romanian

sumbru (black, cloudy, dark, dreary, dull, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, overcast, shadowy, somber, sombre), posomorât (beetle, cheerless, dark, dull, gloomily, gloomy, jaw-fallen, melancholy, mopish, overcast, somber, sombre), mohorât (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, downcast, dreary, dull, dun, gloomy, grave, Gray, grey, lowering, overcast, sad), lugubru (baleful, dire, howling, lugubrious, luridly), funebru (feral, funeral, funereal, gloomy, sepulchral), întunecat (black, blear, blind, clouded, cloudy, dark, darkish, darksome, deep, dull, dusky, fuliginous, fuscous, gloomy, glum, inky, lowering, muddy, murk, obscurely, opaque, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, tenebrous). (various references)

Russian 

мрачный (black, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, dour, drear, dreary, funereal, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, heavy, lugubrious, macabre, mirk, morose, mournful, murk, murky, obscure, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, woebegone). (various references)

Scottish

tiamhaidh (eerie, gloomy, lonesome, melancholy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tužan (disappointing, distressed, distressful, distressing, doleful, dumpish, elegiac, funereal, grievous, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, mirthless, plaintive, sad, tearful, unhappy, wailful, woeful, woesome), sumoran (adust, atrabilious, bleak, gloomy, mirk, moody, murk, sullen). (various references)

Spanish

triste (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, depressing, doleful, dolorous, drear, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, glum, heavy, hipped, joyless, joylessly, mirthless, miserable, mournful, rueful, sad, somber, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy), lúgubre (bleak, dark, dreary, forbidding, gash, gaunt, ghastly, grisly, horrible, lugubrious, mournful, nasty), trivial (banal, commonplace, fiddling, footling, mundane, piffling, platitudinous, sapless, trite, trivial), pobre (abject, beggar, destitute, hungry, impecunious, indigent, jimp, meager, meagre, mingy, miserable, miserly, needy, pathetic, pathetical, pauper, penurious, poor, scrappy, wretched), necesitado (abject, in need, meager, miserable, necessitous, needy, poor, taken, underprivileged, wretched), miserable (abject, beggarly, meager, measly, miserable, moldy, mouldy, paltry, poor, sordid, squalid, twopenny, wretched), menesteroso (abject, meager, miserable, needy, poverty stricken, underprivileged, wretched), horroroso (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, nasty, wicked), horrible (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, appalling, awful, bleak, dire, direful, dirty, dread, dreary, evil, formidably, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, lousy, lurid, moldy, mouldy, nasty, shocking, stinking, terrible, terror, vile, wicked), deplorable (deplorable, miserable, pitiful, poor, regrettable), común (common, commonalty, commonplace, communal, community, current, extensive, familiar, generous, indistinctive, joint, mutual, ordinary, prevailing, rife, team, trite, usual, widespread), afligido (afflicted, aggrieved, bereaved, bleak, desolate, distressed, dreary, gaunt, miserable, mournful, pained, sad, somber, sorrowful, sorry, stricken, sullen, troubled). (various references)

Swahili

-a huzuni (gaunt, miserable, sad). (various references)

Swedish

sorglig (doleful, dolorous, funereal, grievous, heartbreaking, heart-breaking, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, sad, sorrowful, sorry, woeful, woesome). (various references)

Tagalog

malungkót (bleak, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, somber, sullen). (various references)

Turkish

sıkıntılı (annoying, constrained, cornered, distressed, dreary, Gray, grey, grueling, gruelling, troubled, troublesome, troublous, uneasy, unrestful, weighty), loş ve sıkıntı verici, kederli (broken hearted, chapfallen, dejected, depressed, doleful, dolorous, drear, dreary, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, mournful, pained, rueful, sick at heart, sorrowful, unhappy, woeful), kasvetli (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressive, doleful, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grave, howling, lugubrious, melancholy, mopish, muzzy, pitchy, sable, sad, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, waste), aynasiz (bleak, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty), acikli (affecting, dreary, gaunt, miserable, moving, sad, touching, tragedy, tragic). (various references)

Ukrainian

сумний (afflictive, baleful, cheerless, comfortless, damp, dark, deplorable, despondent, doleful, drear, dreary, dumpish, dumpy, elegiac, elegiacal, grievous, heavy-hearted, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, maddening, melancholy, mournful, overcast, plaintive, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, wailful, wan), катастрофічний (catastrophic), гнітючий (depressing, discouraging, oppressive, sulky, sullen), похмурий (adust, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, despondent, disconsolate, drear, dreary, dull, dusky, frowning, gash, gaunt, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grave, gruff, hard-faced, inhospitable, lowering, macabre, mopish, mournful, murk, nightly, obscure, overcast, sable, saturnine, sepulchral, shadowy, stygian, sullen, surly, tenebrous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

u sầu (adust, gloomy, melancholic, melancholy), tối tăm (dark, darkly, fuliginous, gloomy, murky, obscure, recondite, sunless), bu�"n thảm (drear, dreary), ảm đạm bu�"n nản. (various references)

Welsh

dilewyrch (unprosperous), aflawen (awful, cheerless, fierce, sad). (various references)

Yucatec

yah tu yool (dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad), tuukul (dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, think). (various references)

abiectus, acidus, amarus, dies. (various references)

dies mali. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dismal": dismaler, dismalest, dismally, dismalness, dismalnesses, dismals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dismal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bismil, bismol, Daissala, Dejmal, demal, diamal, Diassala, diesal, dimal, dimpal, dimskal, Diosnel, discal, dismac, dismalle, Dismas, dismil, dissal, diswal, Diuma, diumal, Edinshall, Eisma, Udizma. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: amids, dials, limas, maids, mails, salmi.

-2 letters: aids, ails, aims, alms, amid, amis, dais, dals, dams, dial, dims, lads, laid, lams, lids, lima, mads, maid, mail, mids, mild, mils, sadi, said, sail, sial, sild, sima, slam, slid, slim.

-3 letters: ads, aid, ail, aim, ais, als, ami, dal, dam, dim, dis, ids, ism, lad.

+1 letter: amidols, dismals, dualism, medials, miladis, misdeal, misdial, mislaid, mislead, plasmid.

+2 letters: admirals, amyloids, decimals, declaims, dilemmas, diplomas, disclaim, dismaler, dismally, dualisms, halidoms, idealism, impleads, limeades, maladies, mandrils, matildas, medalist, medicals, melodias, midlands, miladies, milldams, misdeals, misdealt, misdials, misleads, misplead, paludism, plasmids, plasmoid, rimlands, salmonid, semibald.

+3 letters: caladiums, dalmatics, diabolism, diplomats, disclaims, disclimax, dismalest, dismantle, dismissal, feudalism, filmcards, filmlands, fluidrams, guildsman, halidomes, idealisms, lampyrids, landmines, madrigals, mainlands, maledicts, mandibles, mandolins, mandrills, manifolds, marigolds, medalists, medallist, medievals, melanoids, melodicas, metalised, middorsal, milkmaids, milliards, misallied, miscalled, misdialed, mishandle, misleader, misleared, misplaced, misplayed, mispleads, misvalued, moralised, olympiads, paludisms, plasmodia, plasmoids, salmonids, salmonoid, sigmoidal, simulated, sympodial, talmudism, vandalism, villadoms.

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