DISMAL

[`dɪzm(ə)l]

мрачный; унылый; гнетущий, тягостный, давящий; зловещий

печальный; угрюмый; подавленный

уныние, хандра, упадок духа; подавленное настроение

dismal: translation

Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, Quaker-colored, acier, affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, apathetic, arid, ashen, ashy, barren, bitter, black, blah, blank, bleak, bloodless, blue, canescent, characterless, cheerless, cinerary, cinereous, cinerous, cold, colorless, comfortless, cynical, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead, defeatist, deplorable, depressing, depressive, despairing, desperate, despondent, dingy, dirgelike, discomforting, disconsolate, disheartening, dismaying, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dove-colored, dove-gray, downbeat, draggy, drear, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, epitaphic, etiolated, exequial, fade, feral, flat, forlorn, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, grave, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grievous, grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, hopeless, in despair, inane, inexcitable, insipid, iron-gray, jejune, joyless, lamentable, lead-gray, leaden, lifeless, livid, low-spirited, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, morose, mortuary, mournful, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, moving, necrological, negative, negativistic, nihilistic, obituary, obsequial, oppressive, painful, pale, pallid, pathetic, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pedestrian, pessimist, pessimistic, piteous, pitiable, plodding, poignant, pointless, poky, ponderous, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, saturnine, sepulchral, sharp, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, slate-colored, slaty, slow, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, solemn, somber, sombrous, sore, sorrowful, spiritless, steel-gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stone-colored, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, taupe, tedious, touching, triste, uncheerful, uncomfortable, unhappy, unhopeful, unlively, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary, without hope, woebegone, woeful, wooden, wretched

1. 1) гнетущий, давящий; зловещий

2) мрачный, тёмный, унылый

2. печальный, унылый; угрюмый, подавленный

3. редк. катастрофический, бедственный

dismal: translation

▪ be, look

▪ become

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪

Last year's results were fairly dismal.

▪

It was a really dismal day.

Dismal is used with these nouns: ↑failure, ↑performance, ↑picture, ↑record, ↑run, ↑showing, ↑weather

dismal [ˊdɪzmǝl]

1. a

1) мра́чный, уны́лый;

2) печа́льный; угрю́мый;

3) гнету́щий;

4) разг. сла́бый, невырази́тельный

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the dismal science шутл. эконо́мика

2. n (the dismals) pl пода́вленное настрое́ние; печа́льные обстоя́тельства

dismal: translation

dismal UK US /ˈdɪzməl/ adjective

► very bad: »

In January, after a dismal holiday sales season, the retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

dismal picture/news/outlook »

Another damper on investment is the dismal picture for corporate profits.

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Investors may be deterred by the dismal performance of telecoms shares in recent weeks.