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dismal 【dismal】adj.沮丧的Sickness or bad luck often makes a person feel dismal.生病或坏运经常使人沮丧。

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['dɪzməl] 
dismalcausing dejection
Dismal is a dreary, depressing sort of bad. "With the cold rain and their team behind by six field goals, the mood in the stands was so dismal even the cheerleaders had lost their 'Rah.'"
Dismal comes from the Latin dies mali which means "bad days." There is a hopelessness implied in the word. If you fell on the way to school and cut your knee, it would be bad, but not dismal. If you fell into a giant mud puddle and had to wear dirty, crusty clothes until you got home, it might make the school day seem pretty dismal.
All forms of 'dismal' will appear on average once every 471 pages.dismaldismally

Front	dismal
Pron	['dɪzməl]
Back	【dismal】 adj.沮丧的 Sickness or bad luck often makes a person feel dismal. 生病或坏运经常使人沮丧。
Vocab	dismalcausing dejection Dismal is a dreary, depressing sort of bad. "With the cold rain and their team behind by six field goals, the mood in the stands was so dismal even the cheerleaders had lost their 'Rah.'" Dismal comes from the Latin dies mali which means "bad days." There is a hopelessness implied in the word. If you fell on the way to school and cut your knee, it would be bad, but not dismal. If you fell into a giant mud puddle and had to wear dirty, crusty clothes until you got home, it might make the school day seem pretty dismal. All forms of 'dismal' will appear on average once every 471 pages. dismal dismally

Dismal Fell School Dɪzməl Adj.沮丧的 Sickness Bad Luck