Dismal vs Sunless - What's the difference?
dismal | sunless | Related terms |
Disappointingly inadequate.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 22, author=Sam Sheringham, work=BBC Sport
, title= Gloomy and bleak.
Depressing.
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, title= Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
* 1816 , , Kubla Khan (or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment) :
(figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
* 1857 , , The Professor , ch. 18:
Dismal is a related term of sunless.
As adjectives the difference between dismal and sunless
is that dismal is disappointingly inadequate while sunless is without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.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 sciencesunless
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Adjective
(en adjective)- In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
- A stately pleasure dome decree:
- Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
- Through caverns measureless to man
- Down to a sunless sea.
- When I first saw her, her countenance was sunless , her complexion colourless; she looked like one who had no source of enjoyment, no store of bliss anywhere in the world.