Found 3 items, similar to dismal.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: dismal sedih, suram
English → English (WordNet) Definition: dismal dismal adj 1: depressing in character or appearance; “drove through dingy streets”; “the dismal prison twilight”- Charles Dickens; “drab old buildings”; “a dreary mining town”; “gloomy tenements”; “sorry routine that follows on the heels of death”- B.A.Williams [syn: dingy, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry] 2: causing dejection; “a blue day”; “the dark days of the war”; “a week of rainy depressing weather”; “a disconsolate winter landscape”; “the first dismal dispiriting days of November”; “a dark gloomy day”; “grim rainy weather” [syn: blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dispiriting, gloomy, grim]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Dismal Dismal \Dis"mal\, a. [Formerly a noun; e. g., “I trow it was in the dismalle.” Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. d[^i]me, tithe, the phrase dismal day properly meaning, the day when tithes must be paid. See Dime.] 1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place. [1913 Webster] Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] A dismal description of an English November. --Southey. Syn: Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill-boding; fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous; calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy; unfortunate; unhappy. [1913 Webster]