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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dismal /ˈdɪzm(ə)l/
▶adjective
- 1 causing or showing gloom or depression; dreary.
- 2 informal pitifully or disgracefully bad: a dismal performance.
– phrases
the dismal science humorous economics.
the dismal science humorous economics.
– derivatives
dismally adverb,
dismalness noun.
dismally adverb,
dismalness noun.
– origin ME: from earlier dismals, the two days in each month which in medieval times were believed to be unlucky, from Anglo-Norman Fr. dis mal, from med. L. dies mali ‘evil days’.
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