causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy

dismal weather.

characterized by ineptness or lack of skill, competence, effectiveness, imagination, or interest; pitiful

Our team played a dismal game.

Obsolete .

disastrous; calamitous.

unlucky; sinister.

Southern U.S. a tract of swampy land, usually along the coast.

adjective

bright , cheerful , glad , happy , hopeful , light , pleasant

adjective

afflictive , black , boring , cheerless , cloudy , dark , depressed , depressing , desolate , despondent , dim , dingy , disagreeable , discouraging , disheartening , dispiriting , doleful , dolorous , dull , forlorn , frowning , funereal , ghastly , gruesome , hopeless , horrible , horrid , inauspicious , in the pits , joyless , lonesome , lowering , lugubrious , melancholy , miserable , monotonous , morbid , murky , oppressive , overcast , sad , shadowy , somber , sorrowful , tedious , tenebrous , troublesome , unfortunate , unhappy , blue , gloomy , bleak , dreary , glum , tenebrific , pessimistic , calamitous , dire , dispirited , drear , funerary , gray , grim , lachrymose , melancholic , ominous , sombre , sullen