Unfortunate vs Dismal - What's the difference?
unfortunate | dismal | Related terms |
Disappointingly inadequate.
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Unfortunate is a related term of dismal.
As adjectives the difference between unfortunate and dismal
is that unfortunate is not favored by fortune while dismal is disappointingly inadequate.As a noun unfortunate
is an unlucky person.unfortunate
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Synonyms
* (not favored by fortune) unsuccessful * (accompanied by or resulting in misfortune) unluckyAntonyms
* (not favored by fortune) fortunate * (accompanied by or resulting in misfortune) fortunate, luckySee also
* deplorable * regrettable * infelicitous * unsuitabledismal
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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.}}