Thesaurus
dismal
Synonyms and Antonyms of dismal
- a suitably dismal setting for a haunted house
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, drear, dreary, elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, wretched
blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woeful
dim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsetting
desperate, hopeless, pessimistic
lamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful
dour, grim, lowering (also louring), lowery (also loury), menacing, oppressive, threatening
- the dismal failure of our hopes for the championship
- The quarterback's dismal performance suggested that he had not fully recovered from his recent injury.
great, marvelous (or marvellous), wonderful
Synonym Discussion of dismal
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- dismal weather
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- a dreary job
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- the bleak years of the depression
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- gloomy war news
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- a drab and cheerless office
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- a desolate outpost
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