Dismal

Adjective

 * 1) Disappointingly inadequate.
 * He received a dismal compensation
 * 1) Gloomy and bleak.
 * The storm made for a dismal weekend
 * 1) Depressing.
 * She was lost in dismal thoughts of despair

Adverbs for Dismal
drearily; drably; lonesomely; abjectly; disconsolately; irremediably; soddenly; sadly; wretchedly; excessively; irrecoverably; deeply; horribly; profoundly; incorrigibly; incurably; darkly; solemnly; anxiously; sombrely; despondently; fixedly; sullenly; heavily; dangerously; ominously; cheerlessly; intensely; terribly.

Synonyms for Dismal
gloomy, sad, melancholy, dark, dingy, cheerless, somber, dreary, doleful, direful, sorrowful, dolorous, dreadful, unhappy, unfortunate, horrid, horrible, depressing.

Antonyms for Dismal
joyful, glad, gay, cheerful, pleasant, bright, hopeful.

Derived terms

 * dismal science

Thesaurus
Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, Quaker-colored, acier, affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, apathetic, arid, ashen, ashy, barren, bitter, black, blah, blank, bleak, bloodless, blue, canescent, characterless, cheerless, cinerary, cinereous, cinerous, cold, colorless, comfortless, cynical, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead, defeatist, deplorable, depressing, depressive, despairing, desperate, despondent, dingy, dirgelike, discomforting, disconsolate, disheartening, dismaying, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dove-colored, dove-gray, downbeat, draggy, drear, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, epitaphic, etiolated, exequial, fade, feral, flat, forlorn, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, grave, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grievous, grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, hopeless, in despair, inane, inexcitable, insipid, iron-gray, jejune, joyless, lamentable, lead-gray, leaden, lifeless, livid, low-spirited, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, morose, mortuary, mournful, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, moving, necrological, negative, negativistic, nihilistic, obituary, obsequial, oppressive, painful, pale, pallid, pathetic, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pedestrian, pessimist, pessimistic, piteous, pitiable, plodding, poignant, pointless, poky, ponderous, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, saturnine, sepulchral, sharp, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, slate-colored, slaty, slow, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, solemn, somber, sombrous, sore, sorrowful, spiritless, steel-gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stone-colored, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, taupe, tedious, touching, triste, uncheerful, uncomfortable, unhappy, unhopeful, unlively, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary, without hope, woebegone, woeful, wooden, wretched

Etymology
From dies: and malus: ("bad day").

Translations

 * Hungarian: elszomorító,
 * Portuguese: inadequado


 * Romanian: dezamagitor de inadecvat


 * Bulgarian: мрачен, неприветлив
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,


 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Portuguese:


 * Bulgarian: тъжен, унил
 * Finnish:
 * French: déprimant


 * Hungarian:, lehangoló, , komor, vigasztalan
 * Romanian: deprimant
 * Scottish Gaelic: brònach