dismal
英 ['dɪzm(ə)l]
美['dɪzməl]
- adj. 凄凉的，忧郁的；阴沉的，沉闷的
- n. 低落的情绪
英英释意
- 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
- 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"