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dismal

Word family 
dis·mal /ˈdɪzməl/ ●○○ adjectiveadj  
1  SAD/UNHAPPYif a situation or a place is dismal, it is so bad that it makes you feel very unhappy and hopeless 凄凉的，阴沉的
 The future looks pretty dismal right now.
目前前景似乎相当暗淡。
 a dismal, grey afternoon
一个阴沉灰暗的下午
2  FAILbad and unsuccessful 差劲的，不成功的，糟糕的
 The team’s record so far is pretty dismal.
该队到目前为止的成绩很糟糕。
 Her scheme was a dismal failure.
她的计划彻底失败。
—dismally adverbadv
Examples from the Corpus
dismal• The profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29%.• Melinda joined her husband in Moscow, but soon found life there bleak and dismal.• The couple lived in a dismal apartment in the poorest section of town.• Instead there would be the dismal apparatus of mutual suspicion familiar to every accountant.• The forecast had been dismal but wrong.• dismal economic news• It looked dismal enough when I saw it, as if given right over to darkness.• a dismal, gray afternoon• But it was a dismal moment for the pastry shop that Majed Makhoul had opened two months earlier in Qlaia.• It was a grey, dismal November afternoon.• Visitors to the camps went home with dismal stories to relate...• I understood that things could have been far more dismal than they were.
dismal failure• It was a dismal failure. 1926-27 found him hawking a play round London offices with no potential takers.• Mitchell called the policy a dismal failure.• Jimmy Johnstone's life after football has been a catalogue of defeats and dismal failures.• This debate will no doubt continue, and clearly no project is either a complete success or a dismal failure.• It was a dismal failure, and was followed by restrictive legislation against the unions and by victimization of many union activists.• They are especially dismal failures in this regard because in fact they support these prejudices.
Origin dismal
(1300-1400) Anglo-French Medieval Latin dies mali “evil days”
dis·mal adjectiveadj
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TOEFL BNC: 9538 COCA: 9459
dismal

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB VERBS➤be, look憂鬱；看上去淒涼▸➤become變得憂鬱ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其／頗為／非常令人沮喪◇Last year's results were fairly dismal.去年的結果相當令人失望。◇It was a really dismal day.真是令人沮喪的一天。
TOEFL BNC: 9538 COCA: 9459
dismal adj.
⇨ poor 2
TOEFL BNC: 9538 COCA: 9459
dismal
Making you feel sad or upset: sad, unhappy, depressing...
Bad or of a low quality: sad, poor, terribly...
TOEFL BNC: 9538 COCA: 9459
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Dismal
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慘淡
0_0: Translations of Dismal
  • # n.
    悲楚: affliction, anguish, dismal, distress, dole, dolor
    沼澤: bog, currach, curragh, dismal, fen, glade
  • # a.
    暗淡: dim, dismal, faint, gloomy
    黯淡: dim, dismal, faint, gloomy
    悲: afflicted, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, downcast
    慘淡: dim, dismal, gloomy
    陰鬱: depressed, dismal, gloomy
    鬱: blue, dense, depressed, despondent, dismal, dispirited
    鬱悶: blue, depressed, despondent, dismal, dispirited, low-spirited
    鬱鬱: blue, depressed, despondent, dismal, dispirited, low-spirited
0_0: Definitions of Dismal
  • # adjective.
    - depressing; dreary.
    * the dismal weather made the late afternoon seem like evening

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