dismal 音标拼音: [d'ɪzməl]
a . 阴沉的,凄凉的,暗的
n . 低落的情绪,沼泽
阴沈的,凄凉的,暗的低落的情绪,沼泽
dismal adj 1 :
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 " [
synonym : {
blue }, {
dark }, {
dingy },
{
disconsolate }, {
dismal }, {
gloomy }, {
grim }, {
sorry },
{
drab }, {
drear }, {
dreary }]
Dismal \
Dis "
mal \,
a . [
Formerly a noun ;
e .
g ., "
I trow it was in the dismalle ."
Chaucer .
Of uncertain origin ;
but perh . (
as suggested by Skeat )
from OF .
disme ,
F .
d [^
i ]
me ,
tithe ,
the phrase dismal day properly meaning ,
the day when tithes must be paid .
See {
Dime }.]
1 .
Fatal ;
ill -
omened ;
unlucky . [
Obs .]
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1913 Webster ]
An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day . --
Spenser .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
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 .
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1913 Webster ]
Full well the busy whisper ,
circling round ,
Convey '
d the dismal tidings when he frowned .
--
Goldsmith .
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A dismal description of an English November .
--
Southey .
Syn :
Dreary ;
lonesome ;
gloomy ;
dark ;
ominous ;
ill -
boding ;
fatal ;
doleful ;
lugubrious ;
funereal ;
dolorous ;
calamitous ;
sorrowful ;
sad ;
joyless ;
melancholy ;
unfortunate ;
unhappy .
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1913 Webster ]
205 Moby Thesaurus words for "
dismal ":
Cassandra -
like ,
Cassandran ,
Cassandrian ,
Quaker -
colored ,
acier ,
affecting ,
afflictive ,
affording no hope ,
apathetic ,
arid ,
ashen ,
ashy ,
barren ,
bitter ,
black ,
blah ,
blank ,
bleak ,
bloodless ,
blue ,
canescent ,
characterless ,
cheerless ,
cinerary ,
cinereous ,
cinerous ,
cold ,
colorless ,
comfortless ,
cynical ,
dapple ,
dapple -
gray ,
dappled ,
dappled -
gray ,
dark ,
dead ,
defeatist ,
deplorable ,
depressing ,
depressive ,
despairing ,
desperate ,
despondent ,
dingy ,
dirgelike ,
discomforting ,
disconsolate ,
disheartening ,
dismaying ,
distressful ,
distressing ,
doleful ,
dolorific ,
dolorogenic ,
dolorous ,
dove -
colored ,
dove -
gray ,
downbeat ,
draggy ,
drear ,
drearisome ,
dreary ,
dry ,
dryasdust ,
dull ,
dusty ,
effete ,
elephantine ,
empty ,
epitaphic ,
etiolated ,
exequial ,
fade ,
feral ,
flat ,
forlorn ,
funebrial ,
funebrious ,
funebrous ,
funeral ,
funerary ,
funereal ,
glaucescent ,
glaucous ,
gloomy ,
grave ,
gray ,
gray -
black ,
gray -
brown ,
gray -
colored ,
gray -
drab ,
gray -
green ,
gray -
spotted ,
gray -
toned ,
gray -
white ,
grayed ,
grayish ,
grievous ,
grim ,
griseous ,
grizzle ,
grizzled ,
grizzly ,
heavy ,
ho -
hum ,
hollow ,
hopeless ,
in despair ,
inane ,
inexcitable ,
insipid ,
iron -
gray ,
jejune ,
joyless ,
lamentable ,
lead -
gray ,
leaden ,
lifeless ,
livid ,
low -
spirited ,
lowering ,
lugubrious ,
melancholy ,
miserable ,
morose ,
mortuary ,
mournful ,
mouse -
colored ,
mouse -
gray ,
mousy ,
moving ,
necrological ,
negative ,
negativistic ,
nihilistic ,
obituary ,
obsequial ,
oppressive ,
painful ,
pale ,
pallid ,
pathetic ,
pearl ,
pearl -
gray ,
pearly ,
pedestrian ,
pessimist ,
pessimistic ,
piteous ,
pitiable ,
plodding ,
poignant ,
pointless ,
poky ,
ponderous ,
regrettable ,
rueful ,
sad ,
saddening ,
saturnine ,
sepulchral ,
sharp ,
silver ,
silver -
gray ,
silvered ,
silvery ,
slate -
colored ,
slaty ,
slow ,
smoke -
gray ,
smoky ,
sober ,
solemn ,
somber ,
sombrous ,
sore ,
sorrowful ,
spiritless ,
steel -
gray ,
steely ,
sterile ,
stiff ,
stodgy ,
stone -
colored ,
stuffy ,
superficial ,
tasteless ,
taupe ,
tedious ,
touching ,
triste ,
uncheerful ,
uncomfortable ,
unhappy ,
unhopeful ,
unlively ,
vapid ,
weariful ,
wearisome ,
weary ,
without hope ,
woebegone ,
woeful ,
wooden ,
wretched
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