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dismal 音标拼音: [d'ɪzməl] a. 阴沉的,凄凉的,暗的
n. 低落的情绪,沼泽 阴沈的,凄凉的,暗的低落的情绪,沼泽 dismal adj 1: 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" [ synonym: { blue}, { dark}, { dingy}, { disconsolate}, { dismal}, { gloomy}, { grim}, { sorry}, { drab}, { drear}, { dreary}] 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] 205 Moby Thesaurus words for " dismal": Cassandra- like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, Quaker- colored, acier, affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, apathetic, arid, ashen, ashy, barren, bitter, black, blah, blank, bleak, bloodless, blue, canescent, characterless, cheerless, cinerary, cinereous, cinerous, cold, colorless, comfortless, cynical, dapple, dapple- gray, dappled, dappled- gray, dark, dead, defeatist, deplorable, depressing, depressive, despairing, desperate, despondent, dingy, dirgelike, discomforting, disconsolate, disheartening, dismaying, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dove- colored, dove- gray, downbeat, draggy, drear, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, epitaphic, etiolated, exequial, fade, feral, flat, forlorn, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, grave, gray, gray- black, gray- brown, gray- colored, gray- drab, gray- green, gray- spotted, gray- toned, gray- white, grayed, grayish, grievous, grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, heavy, ho- hum, hollow, hopeless, in despair, inane, inexcitable, insipid, iron- gray, jejune, joyless, lamentable, lead- gray, leaden, lifeless, livid, low- spirited, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, morose, mortuary, mournful, mouse- colored, mouse- gray, mousy, moving, necrological, negative, negativistic, nihilistic, obituary, obsequial, oppressive, painful, pale, pallid, pathetic, pearl, pearl- gray, pearly, pedestrian, pessimist, pessimistic, piteous, pitiable, plodding, poignant, pointless, poky, ponderous, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, saturnine, sepulchral, sharp, silver, silver- gray, silvered, silvery, slate- colored, slaty, slow, smoke- gray, smoky, sober, solemn, somber, sombrous, sore, sorrowful, spiritless, steel- gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stone- colored, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, taupe, tedious, touching, triste, uncheerful, uncomfortable, unhappy, unhopeful, unlively, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary, without hope, woebegone, woeful, wooden, wretched
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