Dismalness

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dis·mal (d

adj.

1. Causing gloom or depression; dreary: dismal weather; took a dismal view of the economy.

2. Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit: a dismal book; a dismal performance on the cello.

3. Obsolete Dreadful; disastrous.

Chiefly South Atlantic U.S. See pocosin. See Regional Note at pocosin.

[Middle English, unlucky days, unlucky, from Anglo-Norman, unlucky days, from Medieval Latin dis mal : Latin dis, pl. of dis, day; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots + Latin mal, pl. of malus, evil; see mel-³ in Indo-European roots.]

dismal·ly adv.

dismal·ness n.

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