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adj. Causing gloom or depression; dreary: dismal weather; took a dismal view of the economy.

adj. Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit: a dismal book; a dismal performance on the cello.

adj. Obsolete Dreadful; disastrous.

n. Chiefly South Atlantic U.S. See pocosin. See Regional Note at pocosin.

adj. Disappointingly inadequate.

adj. Gloomy and bleak.

adj. Depressing.

adj. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.

adj. Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary

Gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy; doleful; dolorous: originally, as an adjective, in the phrase dismal day or dismal days (see etymology), whence it was extended to any visible physical surroundings, or anything perceived or apprehended, tending to depress or chill the spirits.

n. See extract and etymology.

n. Gloom; melancholy; dumps: usually in the plural, in the phrase in the dismals.

n. plural Mourning-garments.

n. A name given in the southern Atlantic States, in the region bordering on the sea and sounds, and especially in North Carolina, to a tract of land, swampy in character, often covered by a considerable thickness of half-decayed wood and saturated with water.

n. The devil.

To feel dismal or melancholy.

n. plural The blues; the dumps; a state of gloominess or despondency: as, to be in the dismals.

adj. causing dejection

"Isabelle leaned against the doorjamb, her expression dismal."

depressing    cheerless    uncheerful   

dismal science   

unhappy    melancholy    doleful    calamitous    ominous    sad    fatal    lugubrious    dolorous    lonesome   

abysmal    baptismal   

dreary    dreadful    mournful    bleak    dim    ghastly    endless    unpleasant