dismal

dismal is a 6-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
2. adjective. Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.
3. adjective. causing dejection

   "a blue day"

   "the dark days of the war"

   Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry

Synonyms

blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry

Common word forms

dismals, dismaler, dismally, dismalest, dismality, dismalize, dismalness

Words from these letters

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