Dismal /(?)/

Dis·mal

Dismal

a.
  1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.]
    An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day.
  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.
    A dismal description of an English November.