Dismal
['dɪzm(ə)l] or ['dɪzməl]
Definition
(a.) Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
(a.) 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.
Typist: Thaddeus
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Cheerless, gloomy, dark, dull, dreary, lonesome.[2]. Melancholy, mournful, sad, doleful, dolorous, sombre, lugubrious, funereal.[3]. Horrid, horrible, terrible, dire, frightful.
Typist: Naomi
Definition
adj. gloomy: dreary: sorrowful: depressing.—adv. Dis′mally.—ns. Dis′malness Dismal′ity.—n.pl. Dis′mals mournings.—The dismals the dumps.
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Examples
- You are a very bad boy,' retorted Bella, 'to talk about dismal things and be out of spirits. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was daylight and the country was wet, low and dismal looking. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It rained on all morning and turned the snow to slush and made the mountain-side dismal. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The shame, desertion, wretchedness, and exposure of the great capital; the wet, the cold, the slow hours, and the swift clouds of the dismal night. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- During this space he had not been to his mother's dismal old house. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I have thought so, often,' said the dismal man, without noticing the action. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They are not worth your notice,' said the dismal man. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- With this beneficent wish, Mr. Snagsby coughs a cough of dismal resignation and submits himself to hear what the visitor has to communicate. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But she had the dismal precocity of poverty. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I didn't take it,' the dismal youth replied. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The few children made a dismal cheer, as the carriage, splashing mud, drove away. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- How anxious, how dismal, how long! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I got at my spectacles, with some fumbling and difficulty, feeling the Sergeant's dismal eyes fixed on me all the time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But those excellent soldiers would make dismal citizens. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To the devil with this dismal darkness, wrapping itself about one with a chill! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He turned round: and the dismal man was at his side. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Then came the night--dark, dismal, silent night. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They were the decaying skeletons of departed mails, and in that lonely place, at that time of night, they looked chill and dismal. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Next we went to visit the Morgue, that horrible receptacle for the dead who die mysteriously and leave the manner of their taking off a dismal secret. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But you must find me a dismal kind of person if you suppose that I never yield to an impulse. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The poor old fellow is a dismal wreck. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Lucky for you I am, for if I put on crushed airs and tried to be dismal, as you do, we should be in a nice state. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Oh, George is not as dismal as you think. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I need not inquire whether his dismal behaviour was natural or assumed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- As George entered the house, old John Sedley was passing out of the banker's parlour, looking very dismal. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Sergeant Cuff's dismal eyes looked me hard in the face. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Certainly,' said Mr. Snodgrass: for the sunken eye of the dismal man rested on him, and he felt it necessary to say something. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I'll explain to you, then,' said the gentleman, after another and a dismal pause, 'why you wouldn't paper a room with representations of horses. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I did,' replied Mr. Pickwick; 'and I certainly thought--' 'I asked for no opinion,' said the dismal man, interrupting him, 'and I want none. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You shall have it,' replied the dismal man. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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