Hurt vs Dismal - What's the difference?
hurt | dismal | Related terms |
To be painful.
To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
To undermine, impede, or damage.
An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience)
* How to overcome old hurts of the past
(archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
* 1605 , Shakespeare, King Lear vii
* John Locke
(archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
* Shakespeare
(heraldiccharge) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
(engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
A husk.
Disappointingly inadequate.
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Depressing.
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Hurt is a related term of dismal.
As adjectives the difference between hurt and dismal
is that hurt is wounded, physically injured while dismal is disappointingly inadequate.As a verb hurt
is to be painful.As a noun hurt
is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).hurt
English
Verb
- Does your leg still hurt ? / It is starting to feel better.
- If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
- This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.
Synonyms
* wound, injureDerived terms
* wouldn't hurt a flySee also
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- I have received a hurt .
- The pains of sickness and hurts all men feel.
- Thou dost me yet but little hurt .
References
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.}}