1 causing or showing sadness
SYNMISERABLE, GLOOMY:
dismal conditions / surroundings / weather * Christmas will be dismal without the children.
2 (informal) not skilful or successful; of very low quality:
The singer gave a dismal performance of some old songs. * Their recent attempt to increase sales has been a dismal failure.
dismally adverb:
I tried not to laugh but failed dismally (= was completely unsuccessful).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for dismal is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is dismal a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, dismal is tagged as adjective.
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