Bible Dictionaries
Dismal

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.

(2):

(a.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Dismal'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/dismal.html. 1828.