Synonym: bleak, dark, depressing, dreary, gloomy, miserable. Antonym: cheerful, merry. Similar words: small, dismiss, as many, mall, spokesman, male, formal, businessman. Meaning: ['dɪzməl] adj. causing dejection.
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61. This was the most encouragement the boy got there, and it proved not enough to pep up his dismal sales figures.
62. Significantly, the yellow cards shown to Kidd and Honor took Airdrie's haul of bookings this season to a dismal 87.
63. More memory will make a huge difference in performance since the Mac has a fairly dismal form of virtual memory.
64. The voters even overlooked Mr Khatami's economic performance as dismal living conditions became even worse during his tenure.
65. What a dismal, doleful, baleful lament of a speech we had from him.
66. They are especially dismal failures in this regard because in fact they support these prejudices.
67. Heavy snow had fallen in Frome the day before that, the deepest since 1767, and conditions were dismal.
68. Hers is clearly a more acute and dismal spiral than his own.
69. My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers. Woody Allen
70. It was a dismal failure. 1926-27 found him hawking a play round London offices with no potential takers.
71. Investors have been hammered by a series of dismal economic reports.
72. Captain Cook's third and last voyage was a dismal echo of the first two.
73. This debate will no doubt continue, and clearly no project is either a complete success or a dismal failure.
74. She was brought from her dismal thinking by the sound of a commotion in the yard.
75. The Gallipoli campaign ended in dismal and costly failure, with withdrawal from the peninsula commencing on 19 December.
76. This is no dismal post-Brechtian production designed to induce feelings of guilt.
77. Contrary to popular opinion, the non-conformist Sunday was not a dismal day full of restrictions.
78. He could remember every dismal dreary moment of it, with soul-destroying clarity.
79. Instead there would be the dismal apparatus of mutual suspicion familiar to every accountant.
80. But it was a dismal moment for the pastry shop that Majed Makhoul had opened two months earlier in Qlaia.
81. In fact, despite the dismal fundamentals, some of the biggest petroleum producers will record double-digit percentage increases in spending.
82. The play, of course, is a dismal dramatic failure and survives only as a curiosity.
83. Even the most dismal and unstable circumstances can become something to be clung to.
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84. The streets were dismal, a far cry from the paved streets and brick sidewalks of Philadelphia.
85. Then they moved up to four-cell embryos-and now the results were dismal.
86. Overall, the event was a moderate success as a sideshow and a dismal dud as a basketball game.
87. Soon after dark the rain descended in torrents, and all through the dreary hours of that dismal night it rained unceasingly.
88. Over the decades, the economic summits have had a dismal record of understanding what was happening in the real world.
89. Visitors to the camps went home with dismal stories to relate....
90. It was a dismal day at Frederick when the news was promulgated that General Hooker was relieved of the command.
More similar words: small, dismiss, as many, mall, spokesman, male, formal, businessman, female, normally, informal, minimal, racism, tourism, malfunction, organism, journalism, mechanism, euphemism, mutualism, terrorism, militarism, what is more, at this moment, nationalism, disc, disk, dish, display, disturb.