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Dismal

//ˈdɪzməl//

Synonyms for "dismal" (241 found)

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Informal (38)

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(5 words)

flat heavy dead slow sore

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(8 words)

mean black blue blank grim gray grey grizzle

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(3 words)

sharp stiff bitter

Adj, adv, noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, phrase, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, intj, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

Adj, intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

Adj, adv, intj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, slang(8 words)

stuffy poky miserable gloomy feral pearly tragic draggy

Adj, slang(3 words)

wretched livid painful

Name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, slang(1 words)

General use (203)

Adjective(87 words)

bad solemn jejune apathetic effete lifeless smoky insipid vapid spiritless poignant silvery grievous bloodless oppressive hopeless sterile ponderous tedious woeful

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Adj, name, verb(3 words)

dull sober weary

Adjective(10 words)

blue dark grim drab gloomy dreary dingy sorry disconsolate drear

Adj, name, noun, verb(5 words)

dark pale grave silver hurt

Adj, verb(14 words)

obscure leaden desolate somber ashen distressing etiolated dappled grizzled depressing affecting disheartening silvered discomforting

Adj, noun, verb(15 words)

empty moving lowering unhappy overcast sullen dapple plodding forlorn sombre glum dismaying discouraging despairing saddening

Adj, noun(27 words)

dreary superficial inane barren melancholy unfortunate pedestrian deplorable bleak mousy obituary dour depressant grizzly taupe dryasdust dusky disconsolate funeral mortuary

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depressive drear downbeat defeatist lacklustre unhopeful epitaphic

Adj, name(3 words)

steely gaunt wooden

Adj, adv, noun(1 words)

Adj, noun, prep, verb(1 words)

Adj, name, noun(1 words)

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pearl-gray slate-colored smoke-gray steel-gray stone-colored funebrous without hope affording no hope in despair Cassandra-like Cassandrian

Adj, intj(2 words)

Noun(2 words)

pessimist silver-gray

Verb(1 words)

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