Dismal vs Dolorous - What's the difference?
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Disappointingly inadequate.
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, title= Gloomy and bleak.
Depressing.
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, title= Solemnly or ponderously sad.
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* 1645 , , "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity", stanza 14:
* 1859 , , A Tale of Two Cities , ch. 30:
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Dismal is a related term of dolorous.
As adjectives the difference between dismal and dolorous
is that dismal is disappointingly inadequate while dolorous is solemnly or ponderously sad.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 sciencedolorous
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Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- Through dolorous despaire, which she conceyved,
- Into the Sea her selfe did headlong throw,
- Thinking to have her griefe by death bereaved.
- . . . Hell itself will pass away,
- And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
- From this prison here of horror, whence I every hour tend nearer and nearer to destruction, I send you . . . the assurance of my dolorous and unhappy service.
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- As World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald.