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6 Letter Words for Dismal

dismal

5 Letter Words for Dismal

aldim, amids, dalis, dials, islam, ismal, laids, limas, maids, mails, malis, midas, milds, salmi, simal, slaid

4 Letter Words for Dismal

admi, aids, ails, aims, aldm, alms, amid, amil, amis, amli, dail, dais, dali, dals, dams, dasi, dial, diam, dias, dims, disa, lads, laid, lams, lias, lids, lima, mads, maid, mail, mali, mals, mias, mids, mila, mild, mils, sadi, said, sail, saim, sami, sial, siam, sida, sila, sild, sima, slad, slam, slid, slim

3 Letter Words for Dismal

adm, ads, aid, ail, aim, ais, ald, als, ami, asl, dal, dam, das, dia, dil, dim, dis, ida, ids, isl, ism, lad, lai, lam, las, lid, lim, lis, lsd, mad, mal, mas, mia, mid, mil, mis, mls, msl, sad, sai, sal, sam, sil, sim, sla, sld, sma, sml

Definitions for Dismal

[1] causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
[2] characterized by ineptness or lack of skill, competence, effectiveness, imagination, or interest; pitiful: Our team played a dismal game.
[3] Obsolete . disastrous; calamitous. unlucky; sinister.
[4] Southern U.S. a tract of swampy land, usually along the coast.
[5] causing gloom or depression
[6] causing dismay or terror
[7] of poor quality or a low standard; feeble

Words related to Dismal

dim, horrid, murky, discouraging, sad, depressing, ghastly, horrible, miserable, dull, disheartening, black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, desolate, despondent, dingy

Words nearby Dismal

dislocation, dislocation fracture, dislodge, disloyal, disloyalty, dismal, dismal science, dismal swamp, dismantle, dismast, dismay

Origin of Dismal

1275–1325; Middle English dismale unlucky time, dismol day one of two days in each month considered unlucky (hence later taken as adj.) < Anglo-French dis mal < Medieval Latin diēs malī literally, evil days

Other words from Dismal

dis·mal·ly , adverb
dis·mal·ness , dis·mal·i·ty , noun

Word origin for Dismal

C13: from dismal (noun) list of 24 unlucky days in the year, from Medieval Latin diēs malī bad days, from Latin diēs day + malus bad

Synonyms for Dismal

depressing, dim, discouraging, disheartening, dull, ghastly, horrible, horrid, miserable, murky, sad, afflictive, black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, desolate, despondent, dingy, disagreeable, dispiriting, doleful, dolorous, forlorn, frowning, funereal, gruesome, hopeless, in the pits, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, monotonous, morbid, oppressive, overcast, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy