Synonyms:
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
How dismal the fair looked then!
It was a dismal and disheartening task.
Soon after Campbell and Day arrived to confirm the dismal tidings.
The boy grew up in this dismal place and brooded on his mother's wrongs.
Won't it be funny to run across something yellow in this dismal blue country?"
"Just a year ago we were groaning over the dismal Christmas we expected to have.
Walking beyond the line of trees they saw before them a fearful, dismal desert, everywhere gray sand.
The whole place is horrible, and dismal beyond description, and just why anyone lives here I cannot understand.
You're too various, too gifted, too personal, to tie yourself down, at your age, to the dismal drudgery of teaching."
"He ain't a been and took hisself off?" suggested the boy, whose face became very dismal as the terrible idea struck him.