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What does dismal mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word dismal? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Disappointingly inadequate.
  2. Gloomy and bleak.
  3. Depressing.
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I think everyone agrees that Warren has done a dismal job of being a Big Brother secret agent.
Thompson, who has a badly bruised foot and limped from the dismal fray early in the second-half on Tuesday, could be out for two weeks.
It was an inappropriate appointment, in that it was clearly a dismal waste of his extravagant talents.
The popular Aussie made some abortive attempts at comebacks, with dismal results, and then turned to fulltime television golf commentaries.
It was a dismal campaign characterised by public apathy and political evasiveness.
At one stage, only the dismal form of whipping boys Caerphilly looked capable of saving them from the indignity of a winless season.

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