- (a.) 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.
- (a.) Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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