English-Thai Dictionary
dismal
ADJ หดหู่ สิ้นหวัง ท้อแท้ funereal somber happy joyful hod-hu
dismally
ADV อย่าง หดหู่ กลัดกลุ้ม
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
DISMAL
a.s as z. [I am not satisfied with the etymologies of this word which I have seen. ] 1. Dark; gloomy; as a dismal shade.
2. Sorrowful; dire; horrid; melancholy; calamitous; unfortunate; as a dismal accident; dismal effects.
3. Frightful; horrible; as a dismal scream.
DISMALLY
adv. Gloomily; horrible; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
DISMALNESS
n.Gloominess; horror.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
DISMAL
Dis "mal, a. Etym: [Formerly a noun; e. g., "I trow it was in the dismalle." Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as suggested by Skeat ) from OF. disme, F. dîme, tithe, the phrase dismal day properly meaning, the day when tithes must be paid. See Dime. ]
1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs. ] An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser.
2. 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.
DISMALLY
DISMALLY Dis "mal *ly, adv.
Defn: In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
DISMALNESS
DISMALNESS Dis "mal *ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being dismal; gloominess.
New American Oxford Dictionary
dismal
dis mal |ˈdizməl ˈdɪzməl | ▶adjective depressing; dreary: the dismal weather made the late afternoon seem like evening. • (of a person or a mood ) gloomy: his dismal mood was not dispelled by finding the house empty. • informal pitifully or disgracefully bad: he shuddered as he watched his team's dismal performance. DERIVATIVES dis mal ly adverb, dis mal ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from earlier dismal (noun ), denoting the two days in each month that in medieval times were believed to be unlucky, from Anglo-Norman French dis mal, from medieval Latin dies mali ‘evil days. ’
dismal science
dis mal sci ence ▶noun [ in sing. ] (usu. the dismal science ) humorous economics.
Dismal Swamp
Dis mal Swamp another name for Great Dismal Swamp.
Oxford Dictionary
dismal
dismal |ˈdɪzm (ə )l | ▶adjective causing a mood of gloom or depression: the dismal weather made the late afternoon seem like evening. • (of a person or their mood ) gloomy. • informal pitifully or disgracefully bad: he shuddered as he watched his team's dismal performance. PHRASES the dismals archaic, informal low spirits: a fit of the dismals. the dismal science humorous economics. DERIVATIVES dismally adverb, dismalness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from earlier dismal (noun ), denoting the two days in each month which in medieval times were believed to be unlucky, from Anglo-Norman French dis mal, from medieval Latin dies mali ‘evil days ’.
dismal science
dis mal sci ence ▶noun [ in sing. ] (usu. the dismal science ) humorous economics.
Dismal Swamp
Dismal Swamp another name for Great Dismal Swamp.
American Oxford Thesaurus
dismal
dismal adjective 1 a dismal look: gloomy, glum, melancholy, morose, doleful, woebegone, forlorn, dejected, depressed, dispirited, downcast, despondent, disconsolate, miserable, sad, unhappy, sorrowful, desolate, wretched; informal blue, down in the dumps, down in /at the mouth; literary dolorous. ANTONYMS cheerful. 2 a dismal hall: dingy, dim, dark, gloomy, dreary, drab, dull, bleak, cheerless, depressing, uninviting, unwelcoming. ANTONYMS cheerful, bright. 3 informal a dismal performance. See poor (sense 2 ). WORD TOOLKIT Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.
Oxford Thesaurus
dismal
dismal adjective 1 he had a dismal look in his eyes: gloomy, glum, mournful, melancholy, morose, doleful, woeful, woebegone, forlorn, abject, dejected, depressed, dispirited, downcast, crestfallen, despondent, disconsolate, miserable, sad, unhappy, sorrowful, sorrowing, desolate, wretched, lugubrious; informal blue, fed up, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, as sick as a parrot; literary dolorous; archaic chap-fallen. ANTONYMS cheerful. 2 she led them into a dismal cavernous hall: dingy, dim, dark, gloomy, sombre, dreary, drab, dull, desolate, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressing, grim, funereal, inhospitable, uninviting, unwelcoming. ANTONYMS bright, cheerful. 3 informal the team have produced a string of dismal performances: bad, poor, dreadful, awful, terrible, pitiful, disgraceful, lamentable, deplorable; inferior, mediocre, unsatisfactory, inadequate, second-rate, third-rate, shoddy, inept, bungling; informal crummy, dire, diabolical, bum, rotten, pathetic, lousy, poxy; Brit. informal duff, rubbish, ropy, chronic, pants, a load of pants; vulgar slang crap, crappy, shitty; N. Amer. vulgar slang chickenshit; archaic direful; rare egregious. ANTONYMS excellent. WORD TOOLKIT Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
dismal
dis mal /dɪ́zm (ə )l / (! -s-は /z /) 形容詞 more ～; most ～/～er ; ～est 1 〈場所 時 状況 考えなどが 〉陰気な , 憂 [陰 ]うつな, うっとうしい ; 〈光景 景色などが 〉もの寂しい ▸ a dismal room 陰気な部屋 ▸ dismal weather うっとうしい天気 ▸ on a dismal winter morning 陰うつな冬の朝に 2 ｟くだけて ｠〈結果 記録 見込みなどが 〉惨めな, お粗末な, ひどく悪い ▸ a dismal failure [result ]惨めな失敗 [結果 ]名詞 ｟古 くだけて ｠〖the ～s 〗憂うつ .～̀ sc í ence ｟おどけて ｠〖the ～〗憂うつな科学, 経済学 .～ly 副詞 陰気に, 憂うつに ; 惨めに .
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