dismal

adj 1: depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy

streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles

Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town";

"gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the

heels of death"- B.A.Williams [syn: {dingy}, {drab}, {drear},

{dreary}, {gloomy}, {sorry}]

2: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war";

"a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate

winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of

November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn:

{blue}, {dark}, {depressing}, {disconsolate}, {dispiriting},

{gloomy}, {grim}]