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Dismal

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Definition

causing gloom or depression; dreary

Synonyms & similar words

dreary blue sorry dingy grim dark disconsolate drab gloomy drear bleak dreary gloomy miserable dark sad depressing forlorn gloomy grim joyless melancholy somber sorrowful unhappy lugubrious funereal doleful disconsolate cheerless

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