Dismal
adjective
Causing unhappiness or sadness.
The weather has been really dismal lately.
Often appears as...
- dismal weather
- dismal mood
adjective
Very bad or poor in quality.
The team gave a dismal performance during the match.
Often appears as...
- dismal performance
- dismal failure
noun
A state or feeling of deep sadness.
His eyes filled with the visible mark of dismal.
Often appears as...
- a state of dismal
- mark of dismal
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
adjective
Causing unhappiness or sadness.
The weather has been really dismal lately.
Often appears as...
- dismal weather
- dismal mood
adjective
Very bad or poor in quality.
The team gave a dismal performance during the match.
Often appears as...
- dismal performance
- dismal failure
noun
A state or feeling of deep sadness.
His eyes filled with the visible mark of dismal.
Often appears as...
- a state of dismal
- mark of dismal
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Use 'dismal' to emphasize the severity of emotional situations.
Her rejection left him in a dismal state.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Weather
'Dismal' describes more than weather; it can relate to anything sad.
The news of the accident cast a dismal shadow over the party.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity of Sadness
'Dismal' implies a deep, often lingering unhappiness.
After the funeral, her dismal mood was unshakable.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Use 'dismal' to emphasize the severity of emotional situations.
Her rejection left him in a dismal state.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Weather
'Dismal' describes more than weather; it can relate to anything sad.
The news of the accident cast a dismal shadow over the party.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity of Sadness
'Dismal' implies a deep, often lingering unhappiness.
After the funeral, her dismal mood was unshakable.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Use 'dismal' to emphasize the severity of emotional situations.
Her rejection left him in a dismal state.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Weather
'Dismal' describes more than weather; it can relate to anything sad.
The news of the accident cast a dismal shadow over the party.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity of Sadness
'Dismal' implies a deep, often lingering unhappiness.
After the funeral, her dismal mood was unshakable.
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Tim Flannery: Here on...
increases exponentially species are destined to crash it's a very dismal view of the world it really is a survival of the fittest view of the world and in wards eyes humans and I think special we are simply the continuation of the great destructive capacity of the planet and that within a
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3 ways to make better...
I'm a computational cognitive scientist. I spend my time trying to understand how it is that human minds work, from our amazing successes to our dismal failures. To do that, I think about the computational structure of the problems that arise in everyday life,
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Larry Smith: Why you...
End of the day, it's ready for dismal remarks. I only want to talk to those of you who want a great career. I know some of you have already decided you want a good career. You're going to fail, too. Because -- goodness, you're all cheery about failing.
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Paving the way towards...
to be talking about this but I'll give it my best shot we've heard from experts over the past two days the huge strides that Africa has made in these efforts to connect to the rest of the world despite its dismal performance in comparison to
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Eric X. Li: A tale of...
are optimistic about their country's future. Now, if this is not legitimacy, I'm not sure what is. In contrast, most electoral democracies around the world are suffering from dismal performance. I don't need to elaborate for this audience
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Grizzly Bear Gets Too...
well sometimes you get it completely right and all the times you fail dismal and this is definitely a fighter we didn't get enough rain in the night obviously to turn this rocky cascade into a float deep enough to an hour the
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Why democracy matters -...
Princeton and yet you go down to downtown Kingston and you are looking at one of the most depressing sites that you can see in any middle-income country in the world a dismal depressing landscape of burnt and half abandoned
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Misconceptions about...
their data on the people that have died from different diseases the World Health Organization the information that goes there about rabies and numbers are dismal fear of them making it look like drevis is not a big disease
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The power to think ahead...
Now, none of these mistakes that I've described, as dismal as they might sound, are inevitable. In fact, they're all avoidable. What we need to make better decisions about the future are tools that can aid our foresight,
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Alessandra Orofino: It’s...
that we have never seen before, and if those numbers are bad at the national level, at the level of our cities, they are just dismal. In the last two years, two of the world's most consolidated,
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Tim Flannery: Here on...
increases exponentially species are destined to crash it's a very dismal view of the world it really is a survival of the fittest view of the world and in wards eyes humans and I think special we are simply the continuation of the great destructive capacity of the planet and that within a
Video examples
3 ways to make better...
I'm a computational cognitive scientist. I spend my time trying to understand how it is that human minds work, from our amazing successes to our dismal failures. To do that, I think about the computational structure of the problems that arise in everyday life,
Video examples
Larry Smith: Why you...
End of the day, it's ready for dismal remarks. I only want to talk to those of you who want a great career. I know some of you have already decided you want a good career. You're going to fail, too. Because -- goodness, you're all cheery about failing.
Video examples
Paving the way towards...
to be talking about this but I'll give it my best shot we've heard from experts over the past two days the huge strides that Africa has made in these efforts to connect to the rest of the world despite its dismal performance in comparison to
Video examples
Eric X. Li: A tale of...
are optimistic about their country's future. Now, if this is not legitimacy, I'm not sure what is. In contrast, most electoral democracies around the world are suffering from dismal performance. I don't need to elaborate for this audience
Video examples
Grizzly Bear Gets Too...
well sometimes you get it completely right and all the times you fail dismal and this is definitely a fighter we didn't get enough rain in the night obviously to turn this rocky cascade into a float deep enough to an hour the
Video examples
Why democracy matters -...
Princeton and yet you go down to downtown Kingston and you are looking at one of the most depressing sites that you can see in any middle-income country in the world a dismal depressing landscape of burnt and half abandoned
Video examples
Misconceptions about...
their data on the people that have died from different diseases the World Health Organization the information that goes there about rabies and numbers are dismal fear of them making it look like drevis is not a big disease
Video examples
The power to think ahead...
Now, none of these mistakes that I've described, as dismal as they might sound, are inevitable. In fact, they're all avoidable. What we need to make better decisions about the future are tools that can aid our foresight,
Video examples
Alessandra Orofino: It’s...
that we have never seen before, and if those numbers are bad at the national level, at the level of our cities, they are just dismal. In the last two years, two of the world's most consolidated,
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Quote examples
Jack Hemingway
At the time of his death and the few years before, I was just starting to pull myself together and make a reasonably good living after years of dismal failure. I think he would be delighted to know that I've stuck to one thing and have done it well.
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Rajpal Yadav
Indian Actor
My elder brother wants to build a girls' college in Shahjanpur in U.P. We don't have good education system and the security for girls in school and colleges in our village is dismal. So I am going to fully support my brother in whatever he is doing.
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Merce Cunningham
American Dancer
All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world.
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Cameron Russell
American Model
Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
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Henry Van Dyke
American Poet
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
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Rush Limbaugh
American Entertainer
The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.
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Burn Gorman
English Actor
I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.
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Matthew Tobin Anderson
American Author
I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.
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Richard Cordray
American Lawyer
Mike DeWine has been a dismal failure as Ohio's top cop.
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Dick Cavett
American Entertainer
I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
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Jack Hemingway
At the time of his death and the few years before, I was just starting to pull myself together and make a reasonably good living after years of dismal failure. I think he would be delighted to know that I've stuck to one thing and have done it well.
Quote examples
Rajpal Yadav
Indian Actor
My elder brother wants to build a girls' college in Shahjanpur in U.P. We don't have good education system and the security for girls in school and colleges in our village is dismal. So I am going to fully support my brother in whatever he is doing.
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Merce Cunningham
American Dancer
All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world.
Quote examples
Cameron Russell
American Model
Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
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Henry Van Dyke
American Poet
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
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Rush Limbaugh
American Entertainer
The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.
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Burn Gorman
English Actor
I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.
Quote examples
Matthew Tobin Anderson
American Author
I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.
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Richard Cordray
American Lawyer
Mike DeWine has been a dismal failure as Ohio's top cop.
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Dick Cavett
American Entertainer
I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
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