DISMALLY

dismally, dreadfully

(adverb) in a dreadful manner; “as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed”

dismally, drearily

(adverb) in a cheerless manner; “in August 1914, there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adverb

dismally (comparative more dismally, superlative most dismally)

In a dismal manner.

Source: Wiktionary

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Dis"mal*ly, adv.

Definition: In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

DISMAL

Dis"mal, a. Etym: [Formerly a noun; e. g., "I trow it was in the dismalle." Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. dîme, tithe, the phrase dismal day properly meaning, the day when tithes must be paid. See Dime.]

1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.] An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser.

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. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.

Syn.

– Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill-boding; fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous; calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy; unfortunate; unhappy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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