01 a. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
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1.
Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.[Obs.]“An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day.” — Spenser.
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Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.“Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned.” — Goldsmith.“A dismal description of an English November.” — Southey.
Syn.
Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill-boding; fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous; calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy; unfortunate; unhappy.