dismal
Meaning
Adjective
- Disastrous, calamitous
- Disappointingly inadequate.
- Causing despair; gloomy and bleak.
- Depressing, dreary, cheerless.
Origin
- From Anglo-Norman dismal, from Old French (li) dis mals ("(the) bad days"), from Medieval Latin diēs mālī.
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