Definition of dismal in English:

dismal

adjective ˈdɪzm(ə)lˈdɪzməl

1Causing a mood of gloom or depression.
the dismal weather made the late afternoon seem like evening
阴沉的天气使下午后半段时间显得跟傍晚一样。
Example sentencesExamples
- A polar jet stream appears to be the cause of the dismal weather, say the experts.
- Muddy lanes surround dismal tin shacks and there is an aura of despondency and despair, which even the myriads of children do little to dispel.
- In achieving this aim, the frequently dismal weather helps immeasurably.
- Little wavelets came up around his feet, oily and silent in this dismal weather.
- She'd been walking so long she barely noticed the cold and damp, the sticking mud and the dismal weather.
- It's a grey day but this place feels as if it would be dismal regardless of the weather.
- Last year I grew a dark red variety which was really striking, thriving on neglect despite the dismal weather.
- The weather's dismal and the light grey and the landscape reminds you of everything that's hellish about the country.
- It's a chance for cultural liberation, to escape the dismal oppression of autocratic bullies.
- One idea is pushing election day back into October, to spare voters going to the polls in dismal weather.
- As glorious Tramore yet again defied the dismal weather forecasts the fans flocked to the seaside venue.
- No one's mood was helped by the dismal weather outdoors, the sky was grey and the wind was blasting.
- Suddenly, the onslaught of dismal economic news seems to be weighing heavily on the president and his party.
- He finally appeared from the depths of the dismal room dressed in his usual black turtleneck and blue jeans.
- And mine is the world of the rented room, where damp creeps in in the dismal gloom and music is the only thing I own.
- That afternoon the weather was overcast and somewhat dismal, with light snow falling almost continually.
- Ali led me up a narrow path way lined with trees and brush, to a small cabin that looked desolated and dismal.
- The dismal weather for much of the week was no help and there were times when Tralee Racecourse was a drab place to be.
- They looked like a ray of light in that dismal room.
- The dismal picture that emerges is indeed depressing, and sometimes infuriating.
Synonyms
dingy, dim, dark, gloomy, sombre, dreary, drab, dull, desolate, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressing, grim, funereal, inhospitable, uninviting, unwelcoming
1. 1.1 (of a person or their mood) gloomy.
  （人，情绪）阴郁的
  his dismal mood was not dispelled by finding the house empty
  发现房子是空的并没有使他郁闷的情绪消散。
  Example sentencesExamples
  On a fatal journey back to England a storm rocked his ship and as the crew and dismal captain bailed water from the ship, an amazing thing happened for John.
  Remember the light that shone from me long ago if I am too dismal now, but remember me.
  Gail marched after the man enthusiastically, followed by a rather nervous Emy, a dismal Mary, and a grinning Nora.
  Dull, dismal and discarded, he wallows in misery and loathing.
  If these really are the views of those around him, one fears he must run with a rather dismal crowd.
  It's at this point that we come to the dismal apprehension of why attention waned in the first place.
  Her reassuring smile did little to reassure her dismal friends.
  I laughed despite my dismal mood and felt better than I had all night.
  I toyed again with my gin, not quite certain why my mood was such hopeless, dismal despair.
  They were indeed friendly; however, their disposition was dark and dismal.
  It sent a chilling message of cold and dismal feelings through my body; I didn't want to hold on any more, so I gently removed my fingers from the window.
  In the morning as the dismal crowds drained from their former residences into the Mission Square the old man died.
  However, one staff member told the Western People that although the mood is dismal at the plant, the staff realise that it is not just them who will lose out.
  For some reason, any childhood memory in this city has always been bleak and dismal at best.
  I had a hard time being in a dismal mood when Riley was with me.
  After the past 10 days in the spotlight, internal morale for the 200 STB staff is dismal.
  Synonyms
  gloomy, glum, mournful, melancholy, morose, doleful, woeful, woebegone, forlorn, abject, dejected, depressed, dispirited, downcast, crestfallen, despondent, disconsolate, miserable, sad, unhappy, sorrowful, sorrowing, desolate, wretched, lugubrious
  informal blue, fed up, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, as sick as a parrot
  literary dolorous
  archaic chap-fallen
2. 1.2informal Pitifully or disgracefully bad.
  〈非正式〉可怜的；可耻的
  he shuddered as he watched his team's dismal performance
  观看他的团队可怜的表演时，他浑身发抖。
  Example sentencesExamples
  These dismal figures don't include the entitlement reforms proposed by the President.
  The club partly blamed crashing out of Europe to Feyenoord, which went on to win the UEFA Cup, for the dismal figures.
  Failing to do so imperils his chances by giving us nothing to be excited about, much less to work for and a likely dismal voter turnout.
  We were dismal in the Hong Kong history round, but did satisfactorily in current events.
  By that measure, too, Australia's recent performance looks dismal.
  The play is a history of his romantic failures, with amorous adventures ranging from the comic to the pitiful but always dismal failures.
  The league's nonconference winning percentage was worse than last season's dismal figure.
  Our effort to tame nature so that the temperature is always comfortable has been a dismal failure.
  We see this as nothing but the most dismal of choices and are saddened to see the determined few who want to create the ruination of many.
  These are dismal figures, forcing the people of Taiwan to face the cruel reality of an economic winter.
  There is no magic formula to reduce these dismal figures.
  This year's campaign will follow the dismal showing of 2004 where the event didn't even get off the ground because of a lack of interest.
  But this is the limit of the good news to be dredged from a dismal couple of days in Brussels.
  This self-centredness bothered some of his followers, who quit after the party's dismal electoral performance.
  America and Japan also had fairly strong growth, although Western Europe had a more dismal performance.
  First, I managed to get up at 4am, even after a really dismal night's sleep.
  It was a dismal performance and another man might have been broken by it.
  The mishap with the bus did not help but it cannot be blamed totally for this dismal performance.
  I can tell you, I was in a very poor mood for quite a while due to the dismal turnout.
  The coaches must get the offense in a productive mode after last season's dismal performance.
  Synonyms
  bad, poor, dreadful, awful, terrible, pitiful, disgraceful, lamentable, deplorable
  inferior, mediocre, unsatisfactory, inadequate, second-rate, third-rate, shoddy, inept, bungling
  informal crummy, dire, diabolical, bum, rotten, pathetic, lousy, poxy
  British informal duff, rubbish, ropy, chronic, pants, a load of pants
  vulgar slang crap, crappy, shitty
  North American vulgar slang chickenshit
  archaic direful
  rare egregious

Phrases

the dismals

archaic, informal Low spirits.
〈古，非正式〉低落的情绪
a fit of the dismals
一阵情绪低落。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sunny Steve cut through the dismals
- A Sunday lunch with roast chicken, roast potatoes, steamed vegetables and gravy is one of those classic English meals that can soar into the culinary sublime or dive into the dismals.

the dismal science

humorous Economics.
Example sentencesExamples
- Smith did not just found the dismal science (economics); he also helped to pioneer the sentimental science (the psychology of emotion).
- Is it any wonder economics is called the dismal science?
- This is one of the dismal things about the dismal science of economics.
- It is not surprising, given this picture, that economics became known as the dismal science, since the only equilibrium situation was one of subsistence wages.
- Well, she obviously doesn't believe that economics is the dismal science.

Derivatives

dismalness

nounˈdɪzm(ə)lnəsˈdɪzməlnəs

At present the day was drizzling and chilly, while the huge volumes of smoke from a whole forest of factory chimneys tended to impart a deeper shade of dismalness to the dispiriting landscape.
Example sentencesExamples
- To wait fruitfully is not to dream away the now, to brood about its dismalness, to protest its unacceptability, all the hallmarks of being bored.
- When confronted with an empty tomb in our lives, do we look at the hopefulness of the situation or do we look at the dismalness of the situation?
- Before that persistent low-spirit sensation totally takes over, here are a few ideas to put up a barricade against the dismalness.
- Its dismalness is largely a delusion, due to the fact that its chief ornaments, at least in our own day, are university professors.

Origin

Late Middle English: from earlier dismal (noun), denoting the two days in each month which in medieval times were believed to be unlucky, from Anglo-Norman French dis mal, from medieval Latin dies mali 'evil days'.

This word originally referred to 24 days, two in each month, that medieval people believed to be unlucky. The name derives from Latin dies mali ‘evil days’, and first appeared in English in the early Middle Ages as the dismal. This was quickly spelled out more clearly as the dismal days. Soon dismal days could be any time of disaster, gloom, or depression, or the time of old age. In 1849 the Scottish historian and political philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) nicknamed the difficult subject of economics (then known as ‘political economy’) the dismal science.

Rhymes

abysmal, baptismal, catechismal, paroxysmal

Definition of dismal in US English:

dismal

adjectiveˈdɪzməlˈdizməl

1Depressing; dreary.
压抑的；沉闷的
the dismal weather made the late afternoon seem like evening
阴沉的天气使下午后半段时间显得跟傍晚一样。
Example sentencesExamples
- The dismal weather for much of the week was no help and there were times when Tralee Racecourse was a drab place to be.
- It's a grey day but this place feels as if it would be dismal regardless of the weather.
- Ali led me up a narrow path way lined with trees and brush, to a small cabin that looked desolated and dismal.
- Suddenly, the onslaught of dismal economic news seems to be weighing heavily on the president and his party.
- The dismal picture that emerges is indeed depressing, and sometimes infuriating.
- And mine is the world of the rented room, where damp creeps in in the dismal gloom and music is the only thing I own.
- She'd been walking so long she barely noticed the cold and damp, the sticking mud and the dismal weather.
- In achieving this aim, the frequently dismal weather helps immeasurably.
- He finally appeared from the depths of the dismal room dressed in his usual black turtleneck and blue jeans.
- A polar jet stream appears to be the cause of the dismal weather, say the experts.
- One idea is pushing election day back into October, to spare voters going to the polls in dismal weather.
- The weather's dismal and the light grey and the landscape reminds you of everything that's hellish about the country.
- They looked like a ray of light in that dismal room.
- Last year I grew a dark red variety which was really striking, thriving on neglect despite the dismal weather.
- No one's mood was helped by the dismal weather outdoors, the sky was grey and the wind was blasting.
- As glorious Tramore yet again defied the dismal weather forecasts the fans flocked to the seaside venue.
- Muddy lanes surround dismal tin shacks and there is an aura of despondency and despair, which even the myriads of children do little to dispel.
- It's a chance for cultural liberation, to escape the dismal oppression of autocratic bullies.
- That afternoon the weather was overcast and somewhat dismal, with light snow falling almost continually.
- Little wavelets came up around his feet, oily and silent in this dismal weather.
Synonyms
dingy, dim, dark, gloomy, sombre, dreary, drab, dull, desolate, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressing, grim, funereal, inhospitable, uninviting, unwelcoming
1. 1.1 (of a person or a mood) gloomy.
  （人，情绪）阴郁的
  his dismal mood was not dispelled by finding the house empty
  发现房子是空的并没有使他郁闷的情绪消散。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They were indeed friendly; however, their disposition was dark and dismal.
  However, one staff member told the Western People that although the mood is dismal at the plant, the staff realise that it is not just them who will lose out.
  If these really are the views of those around him, one fears he must run with a rather dismal crowd.
  Dull, dismal and discarded, he wallows in misery and loathing.
  In the morning as the dismal crowds drained from their former residences into the Mission Square the old man died.
  On a fatal journey back to England a storm rocked his ship and as the crew and dismal captain bailed water from the ship, an amazing thing happened for John.
  I toyed again with my gin, not quite certain why my mood was such hopeless, dismal despair.
  Gail marched after the man enthusiastically, followed by a rather nervous Emy, a dismal Mary, and a grinning Nora.
  For some reason, any childhood memory in this city has always been bleak and dismal at best.
  After the past 10 days in the spotlight, internal morale for the 200 STB staff is dismal.
  It sent a chilling message of cold and dismal feelings through my body; I didn't want to hold on any more, so I gently removed my fingers from the window.
  I had a hard time being in a dismal mood when Riley was with me.
  Her reassuring smile did little to reassure her dismal friends.
  I laughed despite my dismal mood and felt better than I had all night.
  Remember the light that shone from me long ago if I am too dismal now, but remember me.
  It's at this point that we come to the dismal apprehension of why attention waned in the first place.
  Synonyms
  gloomy, glum, mournful, melancholy, morose, doleful, woeful, woebegone, forlorn, abject, dejected, depressed, dispirited, downcast, crestfallen, despondent, disconsolate, miserable, sad, unhappy, sorrowful, sorrowing, desolate, wretched, lugubrious
2. 1.2informal Pitifully or disgracefully bad.
  〈非正式〉可怜的；可耻的
  he shuddered as he watched his team's dismal performance
  观看他的团队可怜的表演时，他浑身发抖。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This year's campaign will follow the dismal showing of 2004 where the event didn't even get off the ground because of a lack of interest.
  I can tell you, I was in a very poor mood for quite a while due to the dismal turnout.
  We see this as nothing but the most dismal of choices and are saddened to see the determined few who want to create the ruination of many.
  The coaches must get the offense in a productive mode after last season's dismal performance.
  By that measure, too, Australia's recent performance looks dismal.
  The mishap with the bus did not help but it cannot be blamed totally for this dismal performance.
  The league's nonconference winning percentage was worse than last season's dismal figure.
  It was a dismal performance and another man might have been broken by it.
  There is no magic formula to reduce these dismal figures.
  These are dismal figures, forcing the people of Taiwan to face the cruel reality of an economic winter.
  The club partly blamed crashing out of Europe to Feyenoord, which went on to win the UEFA Cup, for the dismal figures.
  But this is the limit of the good news to be dredged from a dismal couple of days in Brussels.
  First, I managed to get up at 4am, even after a really dismal night's sleep.
  We were dismal in the Hong Kong history round, but did satisfactorily in current events.
  These dismal figures don't include the entitlement reforms proposed by the President.
  This self-centredness bothered some of his followers, who quit after the party's dismal electoral performance.
  Failing to do so imperils his chances by giving us nothing to be excited about, much less to work for and a likely dismal voter turnout.
  The play is a history of his romantic failures, with amorous adventures ranging from the comic to the pitiful but always dismal failures.
  Our effort to tame nature so that the temperature is always comfortable has been a dismal failure.
  America and Japan also had fairly strong growth, although Western Europe had a more dismal performance.
  Synonyms
  bad, poor, dreadful, awful, terrible, pitiful, disgraceful, lamentable, deplorable

Origin

Late Middle English: from earlier dismal (noun), denoting the two days in each month which in medieval times were believed to be unlucky, from Anglo-Norman French dis mal, from medieval Latin dies mali ‘evil days’.

词汇	dismal
释义	Definition of dismal in English: dismal adjective ˈdɪzm(ə)lˈdɪzməl 1Causing a mood of gloom or depression. the dismal weather made the late afternoon seem like evening 阴沉的天气使下午后半段时间显得跟傍晚一样。 Example sentencesExamples A polar jet stream appears to be the cause of the dismal weather, say the experts. Muddy lanes surround dismal tin shacks and there is an aura of despondency and despair, which even the myriads of children do little to dispel. In achieving this aim, the frequently dismal weather helps immeasurably. Little wavelets came up around his feet, oily and silent in this dismal weather. She'd been walking so long she barely noticed the cold and damp, the sticking mud and the dismal weather. It's a grey day but this place feels as if it would be dismal regardless of the weather. Last year I grew a dark red variety which was really striking, thriving on neglect despite the dismal weather. The weather's dismal and the light grey and the landscape reminds you of everything that's hellish about the country. It's a chance for cultural liberation, to escape the dismal oppression of autocratic bullies. One idea is pushing election day back into October, to spare voters going to the polls in dismal weather. As glorious Tramore yet again defied the dismal weather forecasts the fans flocked to the seaside venue. No one's mood was helped by the dismal weather outdoors, the sky was grey and the wind was blasting. Suddenly, the onslaught of dismal economic news seems to be weighing heavily on the president and his party. He finally appeared from the depths of the dismal room dressed in his usual black turtleneck and blue jeans. And mine is the world of the rented room, where damp creeps in in the dismal gloom and music is the only thing I own. That afternoon the weather was overcast and somewhat dismal, with light snow falling almost continually. Ali led me up a narrow path way lined with trees and brush, to a small cabin that looked desolated and dismal. The dismal weather for much of the week was no help and there were times when Tralee Racecourse was a drab place to be. They looked like a ray of light in that dismal room. The dismal picture that emerges is indeed depressing, and sometimes infuriating. Synonyms dingy, dim, dark, gloomy, sombre, dreary, drab, dull, desolate, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressing, grim, funereal, inhospitable, uninviting, unwelcoming 1.1 (of a person or their mood) gloomy. （人，情绪）阴郁的 his dismal mood was not dispelled by finding the house empty 发现房子是空的并没有使他郁闷的情绪消散。 Example sentencesExamples On a fatal journey back to England a storm rocked his ship and as the crew and dismal captain bailed water from the ship, an amazing thing happened for John. Remember the light that shone from me long ago if I am too dismal now, but remember me. Gail marched after the man enthusiastically, followed by a rather nervous Emy, a dismal Mary, and a grinning Nora. Dull, dismal and discarded, he wallows in misery and loathing. If these really are the views of those around him, one fears he must run with a rather dismal crowd. It's at this point that we come to the dismal apprehension of why attention waned in the first place. Her reassuring smile did little to reassure her dismal friends. I laughed despite my dismal mood and felt better than I had all night. I toyed again with my gin, not quite certain why my mood was such hopeless, dismal despair. They were indeed friendly; however, their disposition was dark and dismal. It sent a chilling message of cold and dismal feelings through my body; I didn't want to hold on any more, so I gently removed my fingers from the window. In the morning as the dismal crowds drained from their former residences into the Mission Square the old man died. However, one staff member told the Western People that although the mood is dismal at the plant, the staff realise that it is not just them who will lose out. For some reason, any childhood memory in this city has always been bleak and dismal at best. I had a hard time being in a dismal mood when Riley was with me. After the past 10 days in the spotlight, internal morale for the 200 STB staff is dismal. Synonyms gloomy, glum, mournful, melancholy, morose, doleful, woeful, woebegone, forlorn, abject, dejected, depressed, dispirited, downcast, crestfallen, despondent, disconsolate, miserable, sad, unhappy, sorrowful, sorrowing, desolate, wretched, lugubrious informal blue, fed up, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, as sick as a parrot literary dolorous archaic chap-fallen 1.2informal Pitifully or disgracefully bad. 〈非正式〉可怜的；可耻的 he shuddered as he watched his team's dismal performance 观看他的团队可怜的表演时，他浑身发抖。 Example sentencesExamples These dismal figures don't include the entitlement reforms proposed by the President. The club partly blamed crashing out of Europe to Feyenoord, which went on to win the UEFA Cup, for the dismal figures. Failing to do so imperils his chances by giving us nothing to be excited about, much less to work for and a likely dismal voter turnout. We were dismal in the Hong Kong history round, but did satisfactorily in current events. By that measure, too, Australia's recent performance looks dismal. The play is a history of his romantic failures, with amorous adventures ranging from the comic to the pitiful but always dismal failures. The league's nonconference winning percentage was worse than last season's dismal figure. Our effort to tame nature so that the temperature is always comfortable has been a dismal failure. We see this as nothing but the most dismal of choices and are saddened to see the determined few who want to create the ruination of many. These are dismal figures, forcing the people of Taiwan to face the cruel reality of an economic winter. There is no magic formula to reduce these dismal figures. This year's campaign will follow the dismal showing of 2004 where the event didn't even get off the ground because of a lack of interest. But this is the limit of the good news to be dredged from a dismal couple of days in Brussels. This self-centredness bothered some of his followers, who quit after the party's dismal electoral performance. America and Japan also had fairly strong growth, although Western Europe had a more dismal performance. First, I managed to get up at 4am, even after a really dismal night's sleep. It was a dismal performance and another man might have been broken by it. The mishap with the bus did not help but it cannot be blamed totally for this dismal performance. I can tell you, I was in a very poor mood for quite a while due to the dismal turnout. The coaches must get the offense in a productive mode after last season's dismal performance. Synonyms bad, poor, dreadful, awful, terrible, pitiful, disgraceful, lamentable, deplorable inferior, mediocre, unsatisfactory, inadequate, second-rate, third-rate, shoddy, inept, bungling informal crummy, dire, diabolical, bum, rotten, pathetic, lousy, poxy British informal duff, rubbish, ropy, chronic, pants, a load of pants vulgar slang crap, crappy, shitty North American vulgar slang chickenshit archaic direful rare egregious Phrases the dismals archaic, informal Low spirits. 〈古，非正式〉低落的情绪 a fit of the dismals 一阵情绪低落。 Example sentencesExamples Sunny Steve cut through the dismals A Sunday lunch with roast chicken, roast potatoes, steamed vegetables and gravy is one of those classic English meals that can soar into the culinary sublime or dive into the dismals. the dismal science humorous Economics. Example sentencesExamples Smith did not just found the dismal science (economics); he also helped to pioneer the sentimental science (the psychology of emotion). Is it any wonder economics is called the dismal science? This is one of the dismal things about the dismal science of economics. It is not surprising, given this picture, that economics became known as the dismal science, since the only equilibrium situation was one of subsistence wages. Well, she obviously doesn't believe that economics is the dismal science. Derivatives dismalness nounˈdɪzm(ə)lnəsˈdɪzməlnəs At present the day was drizzling and chilly, while the huge volumes of smoke from a whole forest of factory chimneys tended to impart a deeper shade of dismalness to the dispiriting landscape. Example sentencesExamples To wait fruitfully is not to dream away the now, to brood about its dismalness, to protest its unacceptability, all the hallmarks of being bored. When confronted with an empty tomb in our lives, do we look at the hopefulness of the situation or do we look at the dismalness of the situation? Before that persistent low-spirit sensation totally takes over, here are a few ideas to put up a barricade against the dismalness. Its dismalness is largely a delusion, due to the fact that its chief ornaments, at least in our own day, are university professors. Origin Late Middle English: from earlier dismal (noun), denoting the two days in each month which in medieval times were believed to be unlucky, from Anglo-Norman French dis mal, from medieval Latin dies mali 'evil days'. This word originally referred to 24 days, two in each month, that medieval people believed to be unlucky. The name derives from Latin dies mali ‘evil days’, and first appeared in English in the early Middle Ages as the dismal. This was quickly spelled out more clearly as the dismal days. Soon dismal days could be any time of disaster, gloom, or depression, or the time of old age. In 1849 the Scottish historian and political philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) nicknamed the difficult subject of economics (then known as ‘political economy’) the dismal science. Rhymes abysmal, baptismal, catechismal, paroxysmal adj.1 phr. Definition of dismal in US English: dismal adjectiveˈdɪzməlˈdizməl 1Depressing; dreary. 压抑的；沉闷的 the dismal weather made the late afternoon seem like evening 阴沉的天气使下午后半段时间显得跟傍晚一样。 Example sentencesExamples The dismal weather for much of the week was no help and there were times when Tralee Racecourse was a drab place to be. It's a grey day but this place feels as if it would be dismal regardless of the weather. Ali led me up a narrow path way lined with trees and brush, to a small cabin that looked desolated and dismal. Suddenly, the onslaught of dismal economic news seems to be weighing heavily on the president and his party. The dismal picture that emerges is indeed depressing, and sometimes infuriating. And mine is the world of the rented room, where damp creeps in in the dismal gloom and music is the only thing I own. She'd been walking so long she barely noticed the cold and damp, the sticking mud and the dismal weather. In achieving this aim, the frequently dismal weather helps immeasurably. He finally appeared from the depths of the dismal room dressed in his usual black turtleneck and blue jeans. A polar jet stream appears to be the cause of the dismal weather, say the experts. One idea is pushing election day back into October, to spare voters going to the polls in dismal weather. The weather's dismal and the light grey and the landscape reminds you of everything that's hellish about the country. They looked like a ray of light in that dismal room. Last year I grew a dark red variety which was really striking, thriving on neglect despite the dismal weather. No one's mood was helped by the dismal weather outdoors, the sky was grey and the wind was blasting. As glorious Tramore yet again defied the dismal weather forecasts the fans flocked to the seaside venue. Muddy lanes surround dismal tin shacks and there is an aura of despondency and despair, which even the myriads of children do little to dispel. It's a chance for cultural liberation, to escape the dismal oppression of autocratic bullies. That afternoon the weather was overcast and somewhat dismal, with light snow falling almost continually. Little wavelets came up around his feet, oily and silent in this dismal weather. Synonyms dingy, dim, dark, gloomy, sombre, dreary, drab, dull, desolate, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressing, grim, funereal, inhospitable, uninviting, unwelcoming 1.1 (of a person or a mood) gloomy. （人，情绪）阴郁的 his dismal mood was not dispelled by finding the house empty 发现房子是空的并没有使他郁闷的情绪消散。 Example sentencesExamples They were indeed friendly; however, their disposition was dark and dismal. However, one staff member told the Western People that although the mood is dismal at the plant, the staff realise that it is not just them who will lose out. If these really are the views of those around him, one fears he must run with a rather dismal crowd. Dull, dismal and discarded, he wallows in misery and loathing. In the morning as the dismal crowds drained from their former residences into the Mission Square the old man died. On a fatal journey back to England a storm rocked his ship and as the crew and dismal captain bailed water from the ship, an amazing thing happened for John. I toyed again with my gin, not quite certain why my mood was such hopeless, dismal despair. Gail marched after the man enthusiastically, followed by a rather nervous Emy, a dismal Mary, and a grinning Nora. For some reason, any childhood memory in this city has always been bleak and dismal at best. After the past 10 days in the spotlight, internal morale for the 200 STB staff is dismal. It sent a chilling message of cold and dismal feelings through my body; I didn't want to hold on any more, so I gently removed my fingers from the window. I had a hard time being in a dismal mood when Riley was with me. Her reassuring smile did little to reassure her dismal friends. I laughed despite my dismal mood and felt better than I had all night. Remember the light that shone from me long ago if I am too dismal now, but remember me. It's at this point that we come to the dismal apprehension of why attention waned in the first place. Synonyms gloomy, glum, mournful, melancholy, morose, doleful, woeful, woebegone, forlorn, abject, dejected, depressed, dispirited, downcast, crestfallen, despondent, disconsolate, miserable, sad, unhappy, sorrowful, sorrowing, desolate, wretched, lugubrious 1.2informal Pitifully or disgracefully bad. 〈非正式〉可怜的；可耻的 he shuddered as he watched his team's dismal performance 观看他的团队可怜的表演时，他浑身发抖。 Example sentencesExamples This year's campaign will follow the dismal showing of 2004 where the event didn't even get off the ground because of a lack of interest. I can tell you, I was in a very poor mood for quite a while due to the dismal turnout. We see this as nothing but the most dismal of choices and are saddened to see the determined few who want to create the ruination of many. The coaches must get the offense in a productive mode after last season's dismal performance. By that measure, too, Australia's recent performance looks dismal. The mishap with the bus did not help but it cannot be blamed totally for this dismal performance. The league's nonconference winning percentage was worse than last season's dismal figure. It was a dismal performance and another man might have been broken by it. There is no magic formula to reduce these dismal figures. These are dismal figures, forcing the people of Taiwan to face the cruel reality of an economic winter. The club partly blamed crashing out of Europe to Feyenoord, which went on to win the UEFA Cup, for the dismal figures. But this is the limit of the good news to be dredged from a dismal couple of days in Brussels. First, I managed to get up at 4am, even after a really dismal night's sleep. We were dismal in the Hong Kong history round, but did satisfactorily in current events. These dismal figures don't include the entitlement reforms proposed by the President. This self-centredness bothered some of his followers, who quit after the party's dismal electoral performance. Failing to do so imperils his chances by giving us nothing to be excited about, much less to work for and a likely dismal voter turnout. The play is a history of his romantic failures, with amorous adventures ranging from the comic to the pitiful but always dismal failures. Our effort to tame nature so that the temperature is always comfortable has been a dismal failure. America and Japan also had fairly strong growth, although Western Europe had a more dismal performance. Synonyms bad, poor, dreadful, awful, terrible, pitiful, disgraceful, lamentable, deplorable Origin Late Middle English: from earlier dismal (noun), denoting the two days in each month which in medieval times were believed to be unlucky, from Anglo-Norman French dis mal, from medieval Latin dies mali ‘evil days’.
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