Synonyms for dismal

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1. Depressing

   gloomy, dreary, melancholy, dark, cheerless, bleak, desolate, doleful, dispiriting, dolorous, sad, sorrowful, inauspicious, morbid, troubling, horrid, shadowy, tenebrous, dim, overcast, cloudy, gray, unhappy, discouraging, hopeless, black, grim, unfortunate, dreadful, ghastly, horrible, monotonous, tedious, boring, frowning, lowering, mournful, dull, disheartening, afflictive, unwholesome, regrettable, dusky, dingy, sepulchral, joyless, forlorn, funereal, comfortless, murky, wan, somber, woebegone, disagreeable, blue*; see also dark 1, sad 2.

   Antonyms joyful, cheerful, bright.

2. Sad

   miserable, depressed, sorrowful; see sad 1.