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dismal
(mass) | dismal
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dismal
(encz) | dismal,depresivní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
dismal
(encz) | dismal,chmurný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
dismal
(encz) | dismal,ponurý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
dismal
(encz) | dismal,zasmušilý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Dismal
(gcide) | Dismal \Dis"mal\, a. [Formerly a noun; e. g., "I trow it was in
the dismalle." Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as
suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. d[^i]me, tithe, the
phrase dismal day properly meaning, the day when tithes must
be paid. See Dime.]
1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.]
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An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. --Spenser.
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2. 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.
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Full well the busy whisper, circling round,
Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned.
--Goldsmith.
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A dismal description of an English November.
--Southey.
Syn: Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill-boding;
fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous;
calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy;
unfortunate; unhappy.
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dismal
(wn) | dismal
adj 1: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the
war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a
disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal
dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim
rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy,
disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry,
drab, drear, dreary] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
dismal
(mass) | dismal
- skľúčený |
dismal
(encz) | dismal,depresivní adj: Zdeněk Broždismal,chmurný adj: Zdeněk Broždismal,ponurý adj: Zdeněk Broždismal,zasmušilý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
dismally
(encz) | dismally,depresivně adv: Zdeněk Broždismally,neutěšeně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
dismalness
(encz) | dismalness,tísnivost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Dismally
(gcide) | Dismally \Dis"mal*ly\, adv.
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
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Dismalness
(gcide) | Dismalness \Dis"mal*ness\, n.
The quality of being dismal; gloominess.
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dismal
(wn) | dismal
adj 1: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the
war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a
disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal
dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim
rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy,
disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry,
drab, drear, dreary] |
dismally
(wn) | dismally
adv 1: in a cheerless manner; "in August 1914 , there was a
dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French,
German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee
drank together to the peace of the future" [syn:
dismally, drearily]
2: in a dreadful manner; "as he looks at the mess he has left
behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to
succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally
failed" [syn: dismally, dreadfully] |
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