(a.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
(2) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
(3) Trump and Hillary Clinton’s dismal honesty ratings, he says, show scrutiny is working.
(4) Chris Williamson, of data provider Markit, said: "A batch of dismal data and a gloomier assessment of the economic outlook has cast a further dark cloud over the UK's economic health, piling pressure on the government to review its fiscal policy and growth strategy.
(5) Referencing these dismal truths on the website Race Files , Soya Jung criticised Chua and Rubenfeld for "buying into exceptionalist arguments to explain disparities means endorsing a dehumanising system of racialised norms".
(6) We will have another financial shock – it’s inevitable.” Gary Greenwood, analyst at Shore Capital, described the results as “dismal” and noted the bank was ditching targets previously set to measure returns to shareholders.
(7) Henderson completed 77 minutes during a dismal goalless draw, secured on a semi-frozen pitch, to hand Klopp some welcome injury news following the England midfielder’s extended absence because of a heel problem.
(8) It might be doing even better if it had not been deliberately mischaracterised as a demand for a ban by typically dismal feminists, rather than an effort to persuade the Sun that a woman's bra size is not the most interesting fact about her.
(9) But it's a dismal prospect, for this is how our politics of hope continues to manifest itself – vote for us; we're the least worst.
(10) Some of these measures appeared to be lifted over the weekend, but as thousands trudged or bussed their way towards Austria and then Germany, the dismal scenes in Hungary will stain one administration’s human rights record – and perhaps the reputation of a nation.
(11) Griffiths replaced Nadir Ciftci for the start of the second half after a dismal first 45 minutes from the home side and Ronny Deila’s men continued to struggle, with Bitton sent off in the 67th minute after picking up his second yellow card.
(12) The UK's weather seems set on squandering one of its last chances to make amends for the largely dismal summer by threatening wind and rain for the event-packed bank holiday weekend.
(13) Following United's dismal 2-0 Champions League defeat at Oympiakos on Tuesday, Van Persie signalled his disquiet by complaining that his team-mates were taking up positions he wanted to occupy.
(14) Except for the palliative effect of irradiation, most treatment protocols have not altered the dismal median survival of approximately 11 months seen in untreated patients with malignant mesothelioma.
(15) They fought back and, in a rare uplifting moment in these dismal times, won.
(16) Primary pulmonary hypertension is a relatively rare disease with a poorly understood pathophysiology, limited therapeutic options, and a dismal prognosis.
(17) The pernicious nature of this tumor often leads to a dismal outcome despite aggressive therapy.
(18) Nonoperative treatment deserves re-evaluation in patients with all three risk factors because of their uniformly dismal outcome after operation.
(19) The third goal represented another dismal concession from Leicester’s point of view.
(20) The introduction of planned multidisciplinary treatment has improved the outlook for patients with this once dismal disease.
Melancholy
Definition:
(n.) Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
(n.) Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
(n.) Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
(n.) Ill nature.
(a.) Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
(a.) Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
(a.) Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
(a.) Favorable to meditation; somber.
Example Sentences:
(1) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
(2) And melancholy is not the only thing that links Haigh’s work.
(3) Melancholy originally had another meaning from the present one.
(4) the agitated type of involutional melancholy occurred twice as often in Canada as in Hungary, the apathetic cases were rarer in Canada, and the illness began earlier among Canadian women.
(5) Thus New Zealand, like other countries, may be entering an age of melancholy.
(6) English explanations stressed religious aspects and a relationship to melancholy.
(7) I too was attracted to the paintings of De Chirico and Delvaux, with their dreamplaces – empty, melancholy cities, abandoned temples, broken statues, shadows, exaggerated perspectives.
(8) Earlier this week in Janesville, where post-industrial melancholy is evident in a closed car plant and eerily quiet downtown, House speaker Paul Ryan crushed a Trump-style challenger in a congressional primary.
(9) There was always a rueful melancholy, stiffened by irony and leavened by humour about him.
(10) Song of the summer was Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks, with its odd blend of keening melancholy and positivism.
(11) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
(12) "Oh, if one of Dostoevsky's novels, whose black melancholy is regarded with such indulgent admiration, were signed with the name of Goncourt, what a slating it would get all along the line."
(13) It's a melancholy fate for any writer to become an eponym for all that he despised, but that is what happened to George Orwell, whose memory is routinely abused in unthinking uses of the adjective "Orwellian".
(14) As the lead singer with the Walker Brothers, he enjoyed a number of melancholy hits with songs such as The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore, My Ship Is Coming In, No Regrets.
(15) The leading role is infinitely variable: as Oscar Wilde said , "There are as many Hamlets as there are melancholies."
(16) In the right light and with the right song playing on the radio, there is a certain melancholy charm to this bleak highway with its unfolding panorama of wind turbines and electricity pylons stretching to the horizon.
(17) On the contrary: Sørens incomparable melancholy, mental agony and anxiety (fear or anguish) forced the faith, existing independently of them, in a radical refining.
(18) There’s a magnificent melancholy about him, this shadowy figure performing an act of unrequited love.
(19) Closer is a melancholy piece but it is also laugh-out-loud funny, often, as in the very best drama, at moments of starkest pain.
(20) Research is needed to determine whether youth will be predisposed to further depressive episodes and, if so, will we be entering a new age of melancholy?