| 单词 | dismal |
| 释义 | dis·mal I. 1. a. obsolete, of a day b. obsolete 2. < tones so dismal as to make woe itself more insupportable — William Cowper > < the dismal prison twilight — Charles Dickens > 3. < the tonal monotony, the dismal vocal ineffectiveness — E.T.Canby > Synonyms: < dismal acres of weed-filled cellars and gaping foundations — Felix Morley > < rain dripped … with a dismal insistence — T.B.Costain > < the most dismal prophets of calamity — J.W.Krutch > dreary may differ in indicating what discourages or enervates through sustained gloom, dullness, tiresomeness, or futility, and wants any cheering or enlivening characteristic < the most dreary solitary desert waste I had ever beheld — William Bartram > < it was a hard dreary winter, and the old minister's heart was often heavy — Margaret Deland > < had the strength been there, the equipment was lacking. Harding's dreary appreciation of this was part of his tragedy — S.H.Adams > cheerless stresses absence of anything cheering and is less explicit than but as forceful as the others in suggesting a pervasive disheartening joylessness or hopelessness < he would like to have done with life and its vanity altogether … so cheerless and dreary the prospect seemed to him — W.M.Thackeray > dispiriting refers to anything that disheartens or takes away morale or resolution of spirit < it was such dispiriting effort. To throw one's whole strength and weight on the oars, and to feel the boat checked in its forward lunge — Jack London > bleak is likely to suggest chill, dull, barren characteristics that dishearten and militate against any notions of cheer, shelter, warmth, comfort, brightness, or ease < the bleak upland, still famous as a sheepwalk, though a scant herbage scarce veils the whinstone rock — J.R.Green > < the sawmill workers of the bleak mountain shack towns — American Guide Series: California > < the bleak years of the depression — J.D.Hicks > desolate applies to that which disheartens by being utterly barren, lifeless, uninhabitable or abandoned, and remote from anything cheering, comforting, or pleasant < a semibarren, rather desolate region, whose long dry seasons stunted its vegetation — Tom Marvel > < some desolate polar region of the mind, where woman, even as an ideal, could not hope to survive — Ellen Glasgow > II. 1. dismals plural < suffering from an attack of the dismals > 2. South |
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