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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91. These dismal survival figures are due to the fact that most patients in the United Kingdom present with advanced disease.
92. In a country so used to dismal performances the prospect of a player scoring with such consummate style was rare indeed.
93. The record defeat on the summer tour to New Zealand showed the true dismal state of affairs.
94. For all that, it was a dismal phase in the chequered history of postwar Britain.
95. Hartlepool have recovered after a dismal run and want points to boost play-off hopes.
96. As for the library, the surviving books without a proper building to house them must have made a dismal appearance.
97. But the dismal performance in Boston will make many fans think our top players are overvalued and overpaid.
98. What a dismal bunch of hooey that is.
99. The war became a prolonged, dismal, fratricidal struggle.
100. The boy remained as dismal as a hearse.
101. Some of the lessons were stimulating, some dismal.
102. My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
103. That was a dismal revelation to me.
104. Lecture 3 introduces what we know as the "dismal science" and the work of Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo.
105. When we saw Vancouver Island approaching, dismal gray clouds greeted us and I instantly missed the scorching dry heat of Wyoming.
106. I'm rather keen to go on holiday in February because I think it's a very dismal, depressing month.
107. Even in this dismal economy many airlines are upgrading first- and business-class cabins and service, particularly on long-haul routes.
108. He was one of the only Spanish players to shine at Spain's dismal World Cup? campaign.
109. A look of disbelief came into his eyes, but was quickly replaced by one of dismal surrender.
110. The key still depends on the market, export market do one's best, home market is dismal.
111. But this dismal summer, the multimillionaire Premiership player chose to holiday with the caravanning folk of North Wales.
112. You can't occupy yourself with dismal thoughts all the time.
113. You may feel exhausted under stressful brainwork, onerous physical labor, or panic and dismal moods.
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114. Dismal Days were considered unlucky, while Red-Letter Days were the principal feasts and saints' days to be celebrated or observed throughout the Christian year.
115. But Hester could not resolve the query , using herself in a dismal labyrinth of doubt.
116. The rooms were cruelly dismal with their walls on guard like policemen.
117. It seemed so dismal to go upstairs, with the wild snow blowing outside, and my thoughts continually reverting to the kirkyard and the new-made grave!
118. His reflections as he made his toilette were rather dismal.
119. The rain drummed on the eaves of her garden fiat at Cuffe Parade. She listened to its dismal threnody, tapping her teeth with her red pencil and watching streams snaking down the windowpanes.
120. Even though the women of Beattyville work for a large Department of Defense contractor, their dismal workplace conditions remain virtually unregulated by the government.
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.