dismal: Meaning and Definition of

dis•mal

1. causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
2. characterized by ineptness or lack of skill, competence, effectiveness, imagination, or interest; pitiful: Our team played a dismal game.
1. disastrous; calamitous.
2. unlucky; sinister.

1. a tract of swampy land, usually along the coast.