What is another word for dismal?
681 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dˈɪzməl], [ dˈɪzməl], [ d_ˈɪ_z_m_ə_l]
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Similar words for dismal:
- all (adjective)
- black (adjective)
- bleak (adjective)
- bleak, dreary, gloomy (adjective)
- blue (adjective)
- cheerless (adjective)
- chill (adjective)
- cloudy (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- dejected (adjective)
- depressing (adjective)
- desolate (adjective)
- dire (adjective)
- discouraging (adjective)
- dispiriting (adjective)
- doleful (adjective)
- dour (adjective)
- drab (adjective)
- dreary (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- dusky (adjective)
- fed up (adjective)
- funereal (adjective)
- gaunt (adjective)
- gloomy (adjective)
- godforsaken (adjective)
- grievous (adjective)
- heavy (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- joyless (adjective)
- lugubrious (adjective)
- melancholy (adjective)
- moody (adjective)
- murky (adjective)
- ominous (adjective)
- oppressive (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- overcast (adjective)
- pitiful (adjective)
- ruthful (adjective)
- sad (adjective)
- somber (adjective)
- sorry (adjective)
- sulky (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- unhappy (adjective)
- uninteresting (adjective)
- wintry (adjective)
- woebegone (adjective)
- dismal (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- forlorn
- infernal
Synonyms for Dismal:
adj.
• all (adjective) • black (adjective) • bleak (adjective)- hopeless,
- drearer,
- drearest,
- more unpromising,
- un promising,
- dis heartening,
- most unpromising,
- un-promising,
- dis-heartening,
- most disheartening,
- more disheartening.
- depressed,
- black,
- dolorous,
- frowning,
- afflictive,
- gruesome,
- in the pits,
- inauspicious,
- shadowy,
- sad,
- forlorn,
- dim,
- dispiriting,
- despondent,
- funereal,
- horrid,
- lonesome,
- horrible,
- disagreeable,
- overcast,
- lowering,
- troublesome,
- somber,
- morbid,
- ghastly,
- boring,
- tenebrous,
- tedious,
- miserable,
- doleful,
- monotonous.
- mopier,
- un-comfortable,
- in dumps,
- more drearisome,
- un comfortable,
- mopiest,
- most dejecting,
- jarring,
- mopey,
- most drearisome,
- more dejecting,
- draggiest,
- draggier,
- in the dumps.
- un-emotional,
- most unwelcoming,
- un welcoming,
- with drawn,
- most uncompanionable,
- re served,
- more ungenial,
- re-served,
- un-welcoming,
- un-companionable,
- with-drawn,
- most ungenial,
- un genial,
- un-responsive,
- un responsive,
- un emotional,
- more unwelcoming,
- un companionable,
- in-different,
- un-genial,
- solitary,
- more uncompanionable,
- in different.
- more blurred,
- mushy,
- more emulsified,
- misty,
- mis tier,
- more nontransparent,
- more nontranslucent,
- most blurred,
- non translucent,
- non-translucent,
- most nontranslucent,
- emulsified,
- in distinct,
- nontransparent,
- in-distinct,
- most nubilous,
- most emulsified,
- more nubilous,
- most nontransparent,
- mucky,
- in definite,
- mis-tier,
- in-definite,
- opaque,
- non transparent.
- sunless,
- darkened,
- sooty,
- inky,
- morose,
- shaded,
- unpropitious,
- silhouetted,
- obscure,
- umbrageous,
- swarthy,
- shady.
- forsaken,
- godforsaken,
- deserted,
- stark,
- acheronian,
- inhospitable,
- uninhabited,
- abandoned,
- bare,
- in a blue funk,
- lonely,
- desert,
- barren,
- forgotten.
- most scowling,
- most oppressing,
- more scowling,
- portentous,
- more oppressing,
- re-doubtable,
- un fortunate,
- un-fortunate,
- re doubtable,
- ruinous.
- more offputting,
- most repressing,
- more dissuading,
- dis advantageous,
- re pressing,
- more dismaying,
- offputting,
- most dismaying,
- more repressing,
- dis-advantageous,
- re-pressing,
- most offputting,
- most dampening,
- most hindering,
- most off-putting,
- dis-maying,
- dis maying,
- off putting,
- in-opportune,
- in opportune,
- more dampening,
- more hindering,
- dis appointing,
- most dissuading,
- dis-appointing,
- un-favorable,
- more off putting,
- un favorable,
- most off putting,
- more off-putting.
- un-friendly,
- un friendlier,
- forbidding,
- un-friendlier,
- un-friendliest,
- un friendliest,
- most crabbed.
- most subfuse,
- un-inspired,
- most characterless,
- sub-fuse,
- un-changing,
- most zero,
- un changing,
- more characterless,
- more lusterless,
- un inspired,
- sub fuse,
- more zero,
- more subfuse,
- most lusterless.
- subfusc,
- prosy,
- repetitious,
- out-of-date,
- hazy,
- dun,
- uninspiring,
- stocker,
- unlit,
- toned-down,
- oft-repeated,
- wornout,
- big yawn,
- longwinded,
- ho hum,
- matte,
- out of date,
- repetitive,
- usual thing,
- run of the mill.
- most adusk,
- dark complexioned,
- most lightless,
- most unilluminated,
- most darkcomplexioned,
- swart,
- most dark-complexioned,
- swartest,
- un-illuminated,
- most darkish,
- more twilight,
- more dark complexioned,
- more darkish,
- most crepuscular,
- most dark complexioned,
- more crepuscular,
- more adusk,
- more unilluminated,
- most twilight,
- swarter,
- most twilit,
- un illuminated,
- most brunette,
- more dark-complexioned,
- more twilit,
- more darkcomplexioned,
- more lightless,
- darkcomplexioned.
- more sated,
- sick tired,
- dis-contented,
- most discontented,
- most surfeited,
- more satiated,
- most sated,
- sated,
- satiated,
- most satiated,
- more surfeited,
- dis satisfied,
- dis contented,
- dis-satisfied.
- like bag bones,
- peakier,
- like a bag bones,
- like bag of bones,
- peakiest,
- more skeleton,
- more pinched,
- most pinched,
- skin bones,
- most skeleton,
- scraggier,
- most attenuated,
- more attenuated.
- over-clouded,
- more acherontic,
- most chapfallen,
- more chapfallen,
- more mirthless,
- more overclouded,
- most overclouded,
- over clouded,
- more moping,
- most moping,
- most mirthless,
- most acherontic.
- more heart-rending,
- egregious,
- up-setting,
- in tolerable,
- more afflicting,
- in-tolerable,
- most wounding,
- heart rending,
- most heart rending,
- dis-quieting,
- dis quieting,
- more heart rending,
- un bearable,
- un-bearable,
- most heart-rending,
- most afflicting,
- more wounding,
- up setting.
- dispirited,
- disheartened,
- discouraged,
- anguished,
- desperate,
- glum,
- pessimistic,
- spiritless,
- downhearted,
- despairing.
- more piqued,
- illtempered,
- illhumored,
- more ill-humored,
- more illhumored,
- more ill humored,
- in huff,
- shorttempered,
- most ill humored,
- short tempered,
- most splenetic,
- most illhumored,
- more splenetic,
- introspective,
- most piqued,
- ill humored,
- most ill-humored,
- ill tempered,
- splenetic,
- ill-humored,
- out sorts.
- un-cleanest,
- dusk,
- most glowering,
- dusker,
- duskest,
- more glowering,
- un cleanest,
- un-cleaner,
- more darkened,
- un cleaner,
- un clean,
- most darkened.
- illboding,
- ill boding,
- more doomful,
- more malificent,
- Ill-boding,
- more presaging,
- un-lucky,
- most malificent,
- un luckier,
- pre-monitory,
- more malefic,
- in auspicious,
- in-auspicious,
- illfated,
- more precursive,
- most malefic,
- most precursive,
- most doomful,
- in hospitable,
- pre-cursive,
- most premonitory,
- un-luckiest,
- un luckiest,
- pre monitory,
- more premonitory,
- ill fated,
- un-luckier,
- un lucky,
- most presaging,
- in-hospitable,
- pre cursive.
- most confining,
- most ironhanded,
- un justest,
- heavy handed,
- in-human,
- more confining,
- un-just,
- over bearing,
- Over-bearing,
- ex acting,
- in human,
- more headache,
- super incumbent,
- un-juster,
- more ironhanded,
- un juster,
- un-justest,
- heavyhanded,
- un just,
- most headache,
- more superincumbent,
- ex-acting,
- super-incumbent,
- most superincumbent.
- cheerless,
- dark,
- ominous,
- chapfallen,
- heavy,
- brumal,
- dejected,
- dusky,
- up to here,
- malificent,
- sourpussed,
- darkish,
- icebox,
- murky,
- discouraging,
- unilluminated,
- in pain,
- in doldrums,
- mirthless,
- draggy,
- in a huff,
- in blue funk,
- lightless,
- roiled,
- superincumbent,
- acherontic,
- down in dumps,
- blue,
- gaunt,
- dull as dishwater,
- hiemal,
- dreary,
- dire,
- nowhere,
- drear,
- like a bag of bones,
- hibernal,
- melancholy,
- rough going,
- not clear,
- grievous,
- depressing,
- moody,
- lusterless,
- no nonsense,
- overclouded,
- unpromising,
- oppressive,
- dull,
- Drearisome,
- malefic,
- ironhanded,
- heart-rending,
- Precursive,
- lugubrious,
- up here,
- scraggiest,
- skin and bones,
- desolate,
- unwelcoming,
- fed up,
- nontranslucent,
- peaky,
- chill,
- three-dog night,
- roily,
- subfuse,
- ungenial,
- down and out,
- dark-complexioned,
- crepuscular,
- twilit,
- griefstricken,
- pouty,
- torn up,
- non-transparent,
- scraggy,
- unenjoyable,
- sick at heart,
- uninteresting,
- smoggy,
- pitiful,
- let-down,
- sullen,
- in low spirits,
- characterless,
- wintry,
- long-faced,
- Uncompanionable,
- sick and tired,
- sepulchral,
- adusk,
- Doomful,
- premonitory,
- cloudy,
- off-putting,
- head ache,
- down in mouth,
- Nubilous,
- in the doldrums,
- sorry,
- dour,
- have the blahs,
- joyless.
- more discomposing,
- heartsick,
- tear jerking,
- dis-composing,
- in grief,
- grief stricken,
- sick heart,
- dis composing,
- most discomposing,
- be-reaved,
- be reaved,
- more bereaved,
- tearjerking,
- un satisfactory,
- most grieved,
- most bereaved,
- more grieved,
- un-satisfactory.
- most pouting,
- most brooding,
- more sulking,
- more brooding,
- more sourpussed,
- most sulking,
- poutier,
- poutiest,
- most sourpussed,
- more pouting.
- most let down,
- more bleeding,
- most let-down,
- long faced,
- more ripped,
- most long faced,
- most letdown,
- most longfaced,
- un-happier,
- un-happy,
- un happier,
- heavy hearted,
- more long faced,
- more let-down,
- more longfaced,
- un happy,
- most ripped,
- most long-faced,
- un happiest,
- longfaced,
- more letdown,
- most bleeding,
- more long-faced,
- more let down,
- un-happiest.
- most unentertaining,
- un-interesting,
- un interesting,
- un enjoyable,
- most unenjoyable,
- un-enjoyable,
- un exciting,
- more unenjoyable,
- more nowhere,
- most nowhere,
- un entertaining,
- un-exciting,
- most nothing,
- more nothing,
- more unentertaining,
- un-entertaining,
- unentertaining.
n.
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- sorrowful.
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- hope.
Other synonyms:
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- sadly,
- gut-wrenching,
- unfortunate,
- shattering,
- regrettable,
- unhappy,
- tenebrific,
- melting,
- lachrymose,
- poignant,
- soul-destroying,
- worsened,
- pitiable,
- disheartening,
- piteous,
- upsetting,
- affecting.
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- painful,
- touching,
- sentimental,
- bittersweet,
- agonizing,
- tragic.
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- bitter.
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Adjective
bad, baleful, calamitous, daunting, deplorable, desperate, dim, disappointed, disastrous, disgraceful, dreadful, embarrassing, hopeless, horrendous, horrible, horrific, lousy, painful, parlous, pitiful, regrettable, sinister, sobering, stark, terrible, woeful, wretched.
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abysmal, appalling, awful, dark, depressing, dire, disappointing, discouraging, disheartening, distressing, dull, frustrating, lamentable, miserable, murky, pathetic, poor, sad, saddening, sombre, sorrowful, tragic, unfortunate.
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