Trying vs Dismal - What's the difference?
trying | dismal | Related terms |
Difficult to endure; arduous.
*1891 , Conan Doyle,
*:"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
(philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
* 2006 , Andrew Sneddon, Action and Responsibility (page 145)
Disappointingly inadequate.
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Depressing.
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Trying is a related term of dismal.
As adjectives the difference between trying and dismal
is that trying is difficult to endure; arduous while dismal is disappointingly inadequate.As a verb trying
is .As a noun trying
is (philosophy) the act by which one tries something; an attempt.trying
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.
Statistics
*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.}}