Synonyms for Dismal:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • dismal,
  • gloomy,
  • drab,
  • disconsolate,
  • dingy,
  • grim.
  •black (adjective)
  • depressive,
  • sombre,
  • sombrer.
  •bleak (adjective)
  • hopeless,
  • drearer,
  • drearest,
  • more unpromising,
  • un promising,
  • dis heartening,
  • most unpromising,
  • un-promising,
  • dis-heartening,
  • most disheartening,
  • more disheartening.
  •bleak, dreary, gloomy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •blue (adjective)
  • de-pressed,
  • de pressed,
  • down dumps,
  • down in the dumps,
  • down the dumps.
  •cheerless (adjective)
  • mopier,
  • un-comfortable,
  • in dumps,
  • more drearisome,
  • un comfortable,
  • mopiest,
  • most dejecting,
  • jarring,
  • mopey,
  • most drearisome,
  • more dejecting,
  • draggiest,
  • draggier,
  • in the dumps.
  •chill (adjective)
  • 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.
  •cloudy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •dark (adjective)
  • sunless,
  • darkened,
  • sooty,
  • inky,
  • morose,
  • shaded,
  • unpropitious,
  • silhouetted,
  • obscure,
  • umbrageous,
  • swarthy,
  • shady.
  •dejected (adjective)
  • cast down,
  • broody,
  • shot down,
  • all torn up,
  • atrabilious,
  • wretched,
  • bummed out,
  • Mopish.
  •depressing (adjective)
  • most saddening,
  • de-pressing,
  • bleak,
  • more saddening,
  • most daunting,
  • more daunting,
  • de pressing.
  •desolate (adjective)
  • forsaken,
  • godforsaken,
  • deserted,
  • stark,
  • acheronian,
  • inhospitable,
  • uninhabited,
  • abandoned,
  • bare,
  • in a blue funk,
  • lonely,
  • desert,
  • barren,
  • forgotten.
  •dire (adjective)
  • most scowling,
  • most oppressing,
  • more scowling,
  • portentous,
  • more oppressing,
  • re-doubtable,
  • un fortunate,
  • un-fortunate,
  • re doubtable,
  • ruinous.
  •discouraging (adjective)
  • 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.
  •dispiriting (adjective)
  • de-moralizing,
  • most crushing,
  • de moralizing.
  •doleful (adjective)
  • Dolent,
  • Dirgeful.
  •dour (adjective)
  • un-friendly,
  • un friendlier,
  • forbidding,
  • un-friendlier,
  • un-friendliest,
  • un friendliest,
  • most crabbed.
  •drab (adjective)
  • 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.
  •dreary (adjective)
  • un-eventful,
  • un eventful.
  •dull (adjective)
  • 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.
  •dusky (adjective)
  • 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.
  •fed up (adjective)
  • 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.
  •funereal (adjective)
  • dirgelike.
  •gaunt (adjective)
  • 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.
  •gloomy (adjective)
  • over-clouded,
  • more acherontic,
  • most chapfallen,
  • more chapfallen,
  • more mirthless,
  • more overclouded,
  • most overclouded,
  • over clouded,
  • more moping,
  • most moping,
  • most mirthless,
  • most acherontic.
  •godforsaken (adjective)
  • neglected.
  •grievous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •heavy (adjective)
  • sodden.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • dispirited,
  • disheartened,
  • discouraged,
  • anguished,
  • desperate,
  • glum,
  • pessimistic,
  • spiritless,
  • downhearted,
  • despairing.
  •joyless (adjective)
  • more depressant,
  • most depressant,
  • have blahs.
  •lugubrious (adjective)
  • Woful.
  •melancholy (adjective)
  • down out,
  • de-stroyed,
  • more saddened,
  • de stroyed,
  • most saddened.
  •moody (adjective)
  • 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.
  •murky (adjective)
  • un-cleanest,
  • dusk,
  • most glowering,
  • dusker,
  • duskest,
  • more glowering,
  • un cleanest,
  • un-cleaner,
  • more darkened,
  • un cleaner,
  • un clean,
  • most darkened.
  •ominous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •oppressive (adjective)
  • 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.
  •overcast (adjective)
  • clouded over,
  • not fair.
  •pitiful (adjective)
  • scurvy,
  • tearful.
  •ruthful (adjective)
  • ruthful.
  •sad (adjective)
  • 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.
  •somber (adjective)
  • most sourpuss,
  • nononsense,
  • more sourpuss.
  •sorry (adjective)
  • Despisable,
  • scummier,
  • scummy.
  •sulky (adjective)
  • most pouting,
  • most brooding,
  • more sulking,
  • more brooding,
  • more sourpussed,
  • most sulking,
  • poutier,
  • poutiest,
  • most sourpussed,
  • more pouting.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • badtempered,
  • up tight,
  • un-sociable,
  • bad tempered,
  • sulky,
  • up-tight.
  •unhappy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •uninteresting (adjective)
  • 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.
  •wintry (adjective)
  • most hibernal,
  • most brumal,
  • more icebox,
  • more brumal,
  • more hiemal,
  • most icebox,
  • three dog night,
  • threedog night,
  • most hiemal,
  • more hibernal.
  •woebegone (adjective)
  • down-in-the-mouth,
  • woebegone.

• n.

  •
  • low-grade,
  • embarrassing,
  • poor,
  • disgraceful,
  • second-rate.
  •
  • sorrowful.
  •
  • hope.
  •dismal (noun)
  • uncheerful.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • sadly,
  • gut-wrenching,
  • unfortunate,
  • shattering,
  • regrettable,
  • unhappy,
  • tenebrific,
  • melting,
  • lachrymose,
  • poignant,
  • soul-destroying,
  • worsened,
  • pitiable,
  • disheartening,
  • piteous,
  • upsetting,
  • affecting.
  •
  • painful,
  • touching,
  • sentimental,
  • bittersweet,
  • agonizing,
  • tragic.
  •
  • bitter.
  •forlorn
  • comfortless.
  •infernal
  • stygian.

Paraphrases for Dismal:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    gloomy, bleak, grim, somber, dreary.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    deplorable, disastrous, regrettable, dim, disgraceful, terrible, dreadful, pitiful, sinister, wretched, horrible, sobering, woeful, daunting, calamitous, lousy, horrendous, bad, baleful, horrific, hopeless, painful, parlous, disappointed, stark, desperate, embarrassing.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    depressing, disappointing, sombre, sad, abysmal, lamentable, disheartening, miserable, distressing, discouraging, appalling, dire, frustrating, dark, unfortunate, pathetic, saddening, dull, murky, poor, tragic, sorrowful, awful.

Antonyms for Dismal:

• adj.

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

Homophones for Dismal:

• diagonal, duodecimal, dismally, decimal, death knell, 1-dodecanol.