2. 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. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.
Syn. — Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill-boding; fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous; calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy; unfortunate; unhappy.
DISMALLY
Dis"mal*ly, adv.
Defn: In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
DISMALNESS
Dis"mal*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being dismal; gloominess.
DISMAN
Dis*man", v. t.
Defn: To unman. [Obs.] Feltham.
DISMANTLE Dis*man"tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismantled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismantling.] Etym: [F. démanteler, OF. desmanteler; pref: des- (L. dis-) + manteler to cover with a cloak, defend, fr. mantel, F. manteau, cloak. See Mantle.]
1. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.