dismal: betekenis en definities

Causing gloom or depression; dreary: dismal weather; took a dismal view of the economy.

Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit: a dismal book; a dismal performance on the cello.

Obsolete Dreadful; disastrous.

Chiefly South Atlantic U.S. See pocosin. See Regional Note at pocosin.