Dismal
[adj] 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"
[adj] depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
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Synonyms
blue, cheerless, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dispiriting, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry, uncheerful
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acier, affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, apathetic, arid, ashen, ashy, barren, bitter, black, blah, blank, bleak, bloodless, blue, canescent, Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, characterless, cheerless, cinerary, cinereous, cinerous, cold, c