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Adjective dismal has 2 senses
- dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry - depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
Antonym: cheerful (indirect, via cheerless)
- blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim - 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"
Antonym: cheerful (indirect, via cheerless)
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