Synonyms for dismal

Adjective

1. dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry, cheerless (vs. cheerful), uncheerful

usage: 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

2. blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, cheerless (vs. cheerful), uncheerful

usage: 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"