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Synonyms for dismal
adj bleak, dreary, gloomy- depressing
- dim
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dull
- ghastly
- horrible
- horrid
- miserable
- murky
- sad
- afflictive
- black
- boring
- cheerless
- cloudy
- dark
- depressed
- desolate
- despondent
- dingy
- disagreeable
- dispiriting
- doleful
- dolorous
- forlorn
- frowning
- funereal
- gruesome
- hopeless
- in the pits
- inauspicious
- joyless
- lonesome
- lowering
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- monotonous
- morbid
- oppressive
- overcast
- shadowy
- somber
- sorrowful
- tedious
- tenebrous
- troublesome
- unfortunate
- unhappy
Antonyms for dismal
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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bleak
adjective. depressing
bleakest
adjective. depressing
blue
adjective. sad
cheerless
adjective. depressing, unhappy
- austere
- black
- bleak
- blue
- comfortless
- dark
- dejected
- dejecting
- depressed
- desolate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispiriting
- dolorous
- drab
- draggy
- drearisome
- dreary
- dull
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- grim
- in the dumps
- jarring
- joyless
- melancholy
- miserable
- mopey
- mournful
- oppressive
- sad
- somber
- sorrowful
- sullen
- tenebrific
- uncomfortable
- wintry
- woebegone
- woeful
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.