Synonyms for Dismal:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • blue,
  • dark,
  • dingy,
  • disconsolate,
  • drab,
  • drear,
  • dreary,
  • gloomy,
  • grim,
  • sorry.
  •black (adjective)
  • depressive,
  • sombre.
  •bleak, dreary, gloomy (adjective)
  • afflictive,
  • black,
  • boring,
  • cheerless,
  • cloudy,
  • dark,
  • depressed,
  • depressing,
  • desolate,
  • despondent,
  • dim,
  • dingy,
  • disagreeable,
  • discouraging,
  • disheartening,
  • dispiriting,
  • doleful,
  • dolorous,
  • dull,
  • forlorn,
  • frowning,
  • funereal,
  • ghastly,
  • gruesome,
  • hopeless,
  • horrible,
  • horrid,
  • inauspicious,
  • joyless,
  • lonesome,
  • lowering,
  • lugubrious,
  • melancholy,
  • miserable,
  • monotonous,
  • morbid,
  • murky,
  • oppressive,
  • overcast,
  • sad,
  • shadowy,
  • somber,
  • sorrowful,
  • tedious,
  • tenebrous,
  • troublesome,
  • unfortunate,
  • unhappy,
  • in the pits.
  •dark (adjective)
  • black,
  • cloudy,
  • dark,
  • darkened,
  • dim,
  • dusky,
  • inky,
  • lightless,
  • morose,
  • murky,
  • obscure,
  • shaded,
  • shadowy,
  • shady,
  • somber,
  • sooty,
  • swarthy,
  • umbrageous,
  • silhouetted,
  • dreary,
  • gloomy,
  • sunless.
  •dejected (adjective)
  • wretched,
  • broody,
  • Mopish,
  • in the pits.
  •depressing (adjective)
  • bleak,
  • dispiriting.
  •desolate (adjective)
  • abandoned,
  • bare,
  • barren,
  • bleak,
  • desert,
  • deserted,
  • dreary,
  • forgotten,
  • forlorn,
  • forsaken,
  • inhospitable,
  • lonely,
  • miserable,
  • stark,
  • uninhabited,
  • godforsaken.
  •doleful (adjective)
  • doleful,
  • painful.
  •dull (adjective)
  • hazy,
  • subfusc,
  • unlit.
  •funereal (adjective)
  • funereal,
  • dirgelike.
  •godforsaken (adjective)
  • forgotten.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • anguished,
  • cheerless,
  • dejected,
  • depressed,
  • despairing,
  • desperate,
  • despondent,
  • discouraged,
  • disheartened,
  • dispirited,
  • downhearted,
  • gloomy,
  • glum,
  • hopeless,
  • melancholy,
  • morose,
  • pessimistic,
  • spiritless,
  • black,
  • bleak,
  • forlorn,
  • miserable.
  •overcast (adjective)
  • overcast.
  •pitiful (adjective)
  • tearful,
  • pitiable,
  • scurvy.
  •ruthful (adjective)
  • ruthful.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • glum,
  • sulky.
  •tenebrific (adjective)
  • tenebrific.
  •woebegone (adjective)
  • woebegone.

• n.

  •
  • disgraceful,
  • embarrassing,
  • low-grade,
  • poor,
  • second-rate.
  •
  • painful,
  • sorrowful,
  • tragic,
  • upsetting.
  •
  • happy,
  • joyless.
  •
  • desolate,
  • light,
  • tenebrific.
  •
  • hope.
  •dismal (noun)
  • blue,
  • cheerless,
  • dark,
  • depressing,
  • dingy,
  • disconsolate,
  • dispiriting,
  • drab,
  • drear,
  • dreary,
  • gloomy,
  • grim,
  • sorry,
  • uncheerful.

• v.

  •depressing (verb)
  • chill.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • affecting,
  • discouraging,
  • disheartening,
  • lachrymose,
  • melting,
  • piteous,
  • pitiable,
  • poignant,
  • regrettable,
  • sadly,
  • shattering,
  • soul-destroying,
  • tenebrific,
  • unfortunate,
  • unhappy,
  • upsetting.
  •
  • bittersweet,
  • dull,
  • oppressive,
  • painful,
  • touching,
  • tragic.
  •
  • bitter.
  •doleful
  • joyless.
  •foreboding
  • ominous.
  •forlorn
  • comfortless.
  •funereal
  • sepulchral.
  •gloomy
  • desolate,
  • heavy.
  •melancholy
  • funereal.
  •mournful
  • grievous.
  •tedious
  • uninteresting.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abject,
  • abominable,
  • abysmal,
  • achromatic,
  • affecting,
  • afflicted,
  • afflictive,
  • aggrieved,
  • antisocial,
  • apathetic,
  • appalling,
  • arid,
  • aristocratic,
  • aristocratical,
  • ashen,
  • ashy,
  • atrocious,
  • austere,
  • awful,
  • bad,
  • bad-tempered,
  • baleful,
  • baneful,
  • base,
  • befogged,
  • begrimed,
  • benighted,
  • bitter,
  • bittersweet,
  • black,
  • blah,
  • bland,
  • blank,
  • blasphemous,
  • bloodless,
  • blue,
  • blue-blooded,
  • blueish,
  • bluish,
  • blurred,
  • boring,
  • brokenhearted,
  • brooding,
  • broody,
  • brunet,
  • brunette,
  • calamitous,
  • canescent,
  • catastrophic,
  • characterless,
  • chill,
  • chilling,
  • choleric,
  • churlish,
  • cimmerian,
  • closed,
  • clouded,
  • cold,
  • colored,
  • colorless,
  • coloured,
  • colourless,
  • comfortless,
  • contemptible,
  • contrite,
  • crabby,
  • cranky,
  • crestfallen,
  • cross,
  • crotchety,
  • crushing,
  • crusty,
  • cynical,
  • dapple,
  • dapple-gray,
  • dappled,
  • dappled-gray,
  • dark-skinned,
  • darkening,
  • darkish,
  • darkling,
  • dead,
  • deadening,
  • deadly,
  • deathly,
  • defeatist,
  • demoralising,
  • demoralizing,
  • dense,
  • deplorable,
  • depressant,
  • depressing,
  • depressive,
  • desolate,
  • despicable,
  • destitute,
  • detestable,
  • dingy,
  • dire,
  • dirty,
  • disagreeable,
  • disastrous,
  • discoloured,
  • disconsolate,
  • discouraging,
  • disgraceful,
  • disheartening,
  • dismaying,
  • dispiriting,
  • distressed,
  • distressful,
  • distressing,
  • disturbing,
  • doleful,
  • dolorous,
  • doltish,
  • doomed,
  • dour,
  • down,
  • downbeat,
  • downcast,
  • drab,
  • dreadful,
  • drear,
  • dry,
  • dull,
  • dusk,
  • dusty,
  • dyspeptic,
  • ebony,
  • effete,
  • egregious,
  • elegiac,
  • elephantine,
  • embarrassing,
  • empty,
  • enormous,
  • etiolated,
  • execrable,
  • fade,
  • faded,
  • faint,
  • fed up,
  • feral,
  • flagrant,
  • flat,
  • foggy,
  • forbidding,
  • foreboding,
  • foul,
  • frowning,
  • fulsome,
  • funeral,
  • funerary,
  • funereal,
  • gamey,
  • gamy,
  • gaunt,
  • gentle,
  • ghastly,
  • glaucous,
  • gloomful,
  • glooming,
  • glowering,
  • godforsaken,
  • good-for-naught,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • grave,
  • gray,
  • grayed,
  • grayish,
  • grey,
  • greyish,
  • grief-stricken,
  • grievous,
  • grim,
  • grimy,
  • grisly,
  • grizzle,
  • grizzled,
  • grizzly,
  • gross,
  • grubby,
  • gruesome,
  • grumpy,
  • grungy,
  • hapless,
  • happy,
  • harsh,
  • hateful,
  • hazy,
  • heartbreaking,
  • heartbroken,
  • heartrending,
  • heartsick,
  • heavy,
  • heavyhearted,
  • heinous,
  • ho-hum,
  • hollow,
  • hope,
  • horrible,
  • horrid,
  • hostile,
  • hurt,
  • ill-fated,
  • ill-humoured,
  • ill-natured,
  • ill-omened,
  • ill-starred,
  • ill-tempered,
  • impossible,
  • inane,
  • inauspicious,
  • inconsolable,
  • inexorable,
  • infamous,
  • inglorious,
  • inimical,
  • injured,
  • insipid,
  • iron-gray,
  • jejune,
  • joyful,
  • joyless,
  • juicy,
  • lachrymose,
  • lacklustre,
  • lamentable,
  • leaden,
  • lifeless,
  • light,
  • livid,
  • lonesome,
  • lost,
  • lousy,
  • low,
  • low-grade,
  • low-spirited,
  • lowering,
  • lugubrious,
  • lurid,
  • lusterless,
  • lustreless,
  • macabre,
  • malignant,
  • mangy,
  • mean,
  • melancholic,
  • melting,
  • menacing,
  • meritless,
  • minatory,
  • mirthless,
  • misty,
  • monotonous,
  • moody,
  • moonless,
  • morbid,
  • mordant,
  • mortuary,
  • mournful,
  • mouse-colored,
  • mousy,
  • moving,
  • mucky,
  • muddied,
  • muddy,
  • mysterious,
  • nasty,
  • naughty,
  • nebulous,
  • nefarious,
  • negative,
  • nihilistic,
  • no-account,
  • no-count,
  • no-good,
  • noisome,
  • obituary,
  • obnoxious,
  • odious,
  • ominous,
  • opaque,
  • oppressive,
  • outrageous,
  • overcast,
  • overcome,
  • pained,
  • painful,
  • pale,
  • pallid,
  • pathetic,
  • patrician,
  • pearl,
  • pearly,
  • pedestrian,
  • peevish,
  • perverse,
  • pessimist,
  • petulant,
  • piteous,
  • pitiable,
  • pitiful,
  • pitying,
  • plaintive,
  • plodding,
  • plutonian,
  • poignant,
  • pointless,
  • poky,
  • ponderous,
  • poor,
  • poor man,
  • poor person,
  • profane,
  • prosaic,
  • prostrate,
  • punk,
  • puritan,
  • puritanic,
  • puritanical,
  • racy,
  • ragged,
  • rank,
  • raunchy,
  • regretful,
  • regrettable,
  • relentless,
  • remorseful,
  • risque,
  • roily,
  • rotten,
  • rueful,
  • ruthful,
  • sable,
  • sad,
  • saddening,
  • sadly,
  • saturnine,
  • scandalous,
  • scruffy,
  • scurvy,
  • second-rate,
  • secret,
  • seedy,
  • sepulchral,
  • serious,
  • severe,
  • shabby,
  • shameful,
  • sharp,
  • shattering,
  • shocking,
  • sick,
  • silver,
  • silvery,
  • sinister,
  • slaty,
  • slow,
  • smoggy,
  • smoky,
  • smudgy,
  • sober,
  • soiled,
  • solemn,
  • sombre,
  • sordid,
  • sore,
  • sorrowful,
  • sorry,
  • soul-destroying,
  • sour,
  • spicy,
  • splenetic,
  • squalid,
  • starless,
  • steel gray,
  • steely,
  • sterile,
  • stern,
  • stiff,
  • stodgy,
  • stuffy,
  • subfusc,
  • sulky,
  • sullen,
  • sunless,
  • superficial,
  • swart,
  • tasteless,
  • taupe,
  • tearful,
  • teary,
  • tedious,
  • temperamental,
  • tenebrific,
  • tenebrous,
  • terrible,
  • thick,
  • threatening,
  • tiresome,
  • touching,
  • tragic,
  • tragical,
  • troublesome,
  • two-dimensional,
  • ugly,
  • unappeasable,
  • unattractive,
  • uncheerful,
  • uncomfortable,
  • unconsolable,
  • unexciting,
  • unforgiving,
  • unfortunate,
  • unfriendly,
  • unhappy,
  • unhopeful,
  • unimaginative,
  • uninteresting,
  • uninviting,
  • unlit,
  • unlucky,
  • unpleasant,
  • unprepossessing,
  • unpromising,
  • unrelenting,
  • unsociable,
  • unwholesome,
  • upsetting,
  • vapid,
  • veiled,
  • vile,
  • villainous,
  • wan,
  • wearisome,
  • weary,
  • wintry,
  • wishy-washy,
  • wistful,
  • woebegone,
  • woeful,
  • wooden,
  • wretched,
  • wronged,
  • Afflicting,
  • Broken-hearted,
  • Cinerary,
  • Cinereous,
  • Darksome,
  • Discomforting,
  • Dolorific,
  • Drearisome,
  • Epitaphic,
  • Exequial,
  • Funebrial,
  • Funebrious,
  • Glaucescent,
  • Grieved,
  • Griseous,
  • Inexcitable,
  • Moping,
  • Mopish,
  • Necrologic,
  • Necrological,
  • Silvered,
  • Triste,
  • Ungifted,
  • Weariful,
  • Pouting,
  • Sombrous,
  • Star-crossed,
  • Subfuscous,
  • lead-gray,
  • pearl-gray,
  • sulking,
  • MOPY,
  • negativistic,
  • heavy-hearted,
  • dreich,
  • sucky,
  • gray-black,
  • gray-brown,
  • gray-green,
  • gray-white,
  • grey-brown,
  • non-white,
  • chap-fallen,
  • Dryasdust,
  • Unlively,
  • grim-faced,
  • crap,
  • louring,
  • in despair,
  • cut up,
  • dirgelike,
  • draggy,
  • in the doldrums,
  • in the dumps,
  • in the pits,
  • run-down,
  • umbral,
  • silver-gray,
  • olive-drab,
  • dove-gray,
  • slate-colored,
  • tomblike,
  • acier.

Antonyms for Dismal:

• adj.

  • bleak, dreary, gloomy
    bright, cheerful, clear, encouraging, favorable, glad, happy, hopeful, intelligent, joyful, light, luminous, pleasant, smart.
  • Other antonyms:
    acceptable, adequate, agreeable, blithe, blithesome, bright, brilliant, buoyant, cheerful, cheering, cheery, choice, clear, cordial, crystalline, dazzling, delightful, encouraging, enjoyable, excellent, exceptional, exhilarating, festive, first-rate, friendly, glad, gleaming, glowing, great, happy, heartening, heartwarming, hopeful, inspiring, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, light, lighthearted, lightsome, lucid, luminous, marvelous, merry, mirthful, optimistic, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, premium, prime, radiant, satisfactory, satisfying, shining, stimulating, stirring, sufficient, sunshiny, superior, thrilling, transparent, uplifting, welcome, white, wonderful, first class, illumined, comforting.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    acceptable, adequate, agreeable, blithe, blithesome, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheering, cheery, choice, clear, cordial, encouraging, enjoyable, excellent, exceptional, exhilarating, favorable, favourable, festive, first-rate, friendly, glad, great, happy, heartening, heartwarming, hopeful, inspiring, intelligent, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, light, lighthearted, lightsome, luminous, marvelous, merry, mirthful, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, premium, prime, satisfactory, satisfying, smart, stimulating, stirring, sufficient, sunny, sunshiny, superior, welcome, wonderful, Light-hearted, comforting, gay, bitchin', first-class.