Dismal vs Dispirited - What's the difference?
dismal | dispirited |
Disappointingly inadequate.
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Depressing.
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Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.
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As adjectives the difference between dismal and dispirited
is that dismal is disappointingly inadequate while dispirited is without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.As a verb dispirited is
past tense of dispirit.dismal
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Adjective
(en adjective)Liverpool 0-1 West Brom, passage=Liverpool's efforts thereafter had an air of desperation as their dismal 2012 league form continued.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all. It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.}}
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "dismal" is often applied: failure, performance, state, record, place, result, scene, season, year, economy, future, fate, weather, news, condition, history.Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* dismal sciencedispirited
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- So dispirited were the troops after the loss of their beloved commander that they moped about and could barely be bothered to eat let alone load their guns.
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