Definition of dismals Dismals
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What does dismals mean?
Part of speech
🔤- dismals, noun, plural of dismal.
WordNet
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| dismal - 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" | ||
| blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary | ||
| cheerless, depressing, uncheerful causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- dismal (Adjective)
Disappointingly inadequate. - dismal (Adjective)
Gloomy and bleak. - dismal (Adjective)
Depressing.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- dismal (a.)
Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. - dismal (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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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dismal
Making despondent or depressive.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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dismal
diz′mal, adj. gloomy: dreary: sorrowful: depressing.—adv. Dis′mally.—ns. Dis′malness, Dismal′ity.—n.pl. Dis′mals, mournings.—The dismals, the dumps. [O. Fr. dismal = L. dies mali, evil, unlucky days. Skeat makes O. Fr. dismal correspond to Low L. decimalis, of a tenth, pertaining to tithes—L. decimus, tenth—decem, ten.]
Part of speech
🔤- dismal, noun, singular of dismals.
- dismal, adjective.
