dismal synonyms

dismal

modif.

  1. Depressing

    gloomy, dreary, melancholy, dark, cheerless, bleak, desolate, doleful, dispiriting, dolorous, sad, sorrowful, inauspicious, morbid, troubling, horrid, shadowy, tenebrous, dim, overcast, cloudy, gray, unhappy, discouraging, hopeless, black, grim, unfortunate, dreadful, ghastly, horrible, monotonous, tedious, boring, frowning, lowering, mournful, dull, disheartening, afflictive, unwholesome, regrettable, dusky, dingy, sepulchral, joyless, forlorn, funereal, comfortless, murky, wan, somber, woebegone, disagreeable, blue*; see also dark 1, sad 2.

    Antonyms joyful, cheerful, bright.

  2. Sad

    miserable, depressed, sorrowful; see sad 1.

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