单词 | dismal |
释义 | dismal adj.   1. causing or showing gloom; miserable.   2. dreary or sombre (dismal brown walls).   3. colloq. feeble or inept (a dismal performance). Phrases and idioms the dismals colloq. melancholy. the dismal science joc. economics. Derivatives dismally adv. dismalness n. Etymology: orig. noun = unlucky days: ME f. AF dis mal f. med.L dies mali two days in each month held to be unpropitious |
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