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ˈdɪz məldis·mal
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
dismal
Strictly, that which is black is absolutely destitute of color; that which is dark is absolutely destitute of light. In common speech, however, a coat is black, tho not optically colorless; the night is dark, tho the stars shine. That is obscure, shadowy, or shady from which the light is more or less cut off. Dusky is applied to objects which appear as if viewed in fading light; the word is often used, as are swart and swarthy, of the human skin when quite dark, or even verging toward black. Dim refers to imperfection of outline, from distance, darkness, mist, etc., or from some defect of vision. Opaque objects, as smoked glass, are impervious to light. Murky is said of that which is at once dark, obscure, and gloomy; as, a murky den; a murky sky. Figuratively, dark is emblematic of sadness, agreeing with somber, dismal, gloomy, also of moral evil; as, a dark deed. Of intellectual matters, dark is now rarely used in the old sense of a dark saying, etc. See MYSTERIOUS; OBSCURE.
Compare synonyms for LIGHT.
Synonyms:
black, dark, dim, dusky, gloomy, murky, mysterious, obscure, opaque, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, swart, swarthyAntonyms:
bright, brilliant, clear, crystalline, dazzling, gleaming, glowing, illumined, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, transparent, white
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
dismal
Antonyms:
gay, propitious, promising, cheerful, lively, elated, joyous, laughable, ridiculous, comic
Princeton's WordNet
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, drearyadjective
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"
Synonyms:
black, blueish, non-white, gloomful, stern, unappeasable, ghastly, moody, forbidding, relentless, dingy, raunchy, bluish, mordant, sorry, risque, gruesome, depressed, dirty, gamey, down in the mouth, low, sinister, olive-drab, lamentable, muddied, unrelenting, sullen, juicy, sulky, bad, gloomy, meritless, low-spirited, saturnine, good-for-naught, dispirited, gamy, down(p), grisly, good-for-nothing, dark, naughty, unconsolable, benighted, sad, muddy, sober, gentle, grubby, grungy, dark-skinned, aristocratic, inconsolable, racy, regretful, somber, spicy, blue-blooded, blue, puritanical, no-count, drear, macabre, disconsolate, no-account, dreary, grimy, coloured, inexorable, puritanic, aristocratical, no-good, deplorable, glowering, morose, pitiful, patrician, profane, blasphemous, sombre, drab, glum, unforgiving, glooming, sour, blue(a), downcast, downhearted, distressing, dour, obscure, sick, grim, begrimedAntonyms:
cheerful
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List of paraphrases for "dismal":
bleak, depressing, gloomy, grim, sad, sombre, regrettable, somber, dreary, dark, unfortunate
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How to use dismal in a sentence?
With the EU referendum on a knife-edge, the market is right to look elsewhere for direction. Some of this came from Yellen, who reinforced (the) message that the Fed will slow the pace of rate hikes if the U.S. economy posts another dismal jobs report for June.
The past weekend will not save this holiday season, but combined with online sales, it would certainly save the year from being a dismal one.
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
It's not economic uncertainty we should be worried about rather its the doom and gloom economic realities that the key forward-looking manufacturing PMI's are telling us about the dismal health of this rapidly deteriorating global macro environment.
Migrant Rights Director Steve Valdez-Symonds:
Sending people to another country -- let alone one with such a dismal human rights record -- for asylum' processing' is the very height of irresponsibility and shows how far removed from humanity and reality the Government now is on asylum issues.
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- كئيبArabic
- неприветлив, унил, тъжен, мраченBulgarian
- düsterGerman
- tristeSpanish
- ناراحت کنندهPersian
- surullinen, synkkäFinnish
- déprimant, lugubre, morneFrench
- brònachScottish Gaelic
- מדכאHebrew
- gyászos, szomorú, sötét, vigasztalan, lehangoló, sikertelen, elszomorító, komor, búsHungarian
- suramIndonesian
- 陰気なJapanese
- 음침한Korean
- stusslig, sturenNorwegian
- inadequado, sombrioPortuguese
- dezamagitor de inadecvat, deprimantRomanian
- мрачныйRussian
- похмурийUkrainian
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