Dismal vs Doleful - What's the difference?
dismal | doleful | Related terms |
Disappointingly inadequate.
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, title= Gloomy and bleak.
Depressing.
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, title= Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
Dismal is a related term of doleful.
As adjectives the difference between dismal and doleful
is that dismal is disappointingly inadequate while doleful is filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.dismal
English
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 sciencedoleful
English
Adjective
(er)- The doleful peal of the bell indicated another funeral was being held.