dismaller

Adjective

dismal (comparative more dismal, superlative most dismal)

1. Disastrous, calamitous.

   Synonyms:

   cataclysmic, catastrophic, ruinous

2. Disappointingly inadequate.
   • He received a dismal compensation.

   Synonyms:

   meager, paltry, awanting, deficient, exiguous, geason, inadequate, insufficient, lank, lean

3. Causing despair; gloomy and bleak.
   • The storm made for a dismal weekend

   Synonyms:

   desolate, dreary, cheerless, comfortless, bleak, dark, morose, depressing, dire, disconsolate

4. Depressing, dreary, cheerless.
   • She was lost in dismal thoughts of despair

   Synonyms:

   sorrowful, mournful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless

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