1. (a.) Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.

2. (a.) 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.

Cassandra-like Cassandran Cassandrian Quaker-colored acier affecting afflictive affording no hope apathetic arid ashen ashy barren bitter black blah blank bleak bloodless blue canescent characterless cheerless cinerary cinereous cinerous cold colorless comfortless cynical dapple dapple-gray dappled dappled-gray dark dead defeatist deplorable depressing depressive despairing desperate despondent dingy dirgelike discomforting disconsolate disheartening dismaying distressful distressing doleful dolorific dolorogenic dolorous dove-colored dove-gray downbeat draggy drear drearisome dreary dry dryasdust dull dusty effete elephantine empty epitaphic etiolated exequial fade feral flat forlorn funebrial funebrious funebrous funeral funerary funereal glaucescent glaucous gloomy grave gray gray-black gray-brown gray-colored gray-drab gray-green gray-spotted gray-toned gray-white grayed grayish grievous grim griseous grizzle grizzled grizzly heavy ho-hum hollow hopeless in despair inane inexcitable insipid iron-gray jejune joyless lamentable lead-gray leaden lifeless livid low-spirited lowering lugubrious melancholy miserable morose mortuary mournful mouse-colored mouse-gray mousy moving necrological negative negativistic nihilistic obituary obsequial oppressive painful pale pallid pathetic pearl pearl-gray pearly pedestrian pessimist pessimistic piteous pitiable plodding poignant pointless poky ponderous regrettable rueful sad saddening saturnine sepulchral sharp silver silver-gray silvered silvery slate-colored slaty slow smoke-gray smoky sober solemn somber sombrous sore sorrowful spiritless steel-gray steely sterile stiff stodgy stone-colored stuffy superficial tasteless taupe tedious touching triste uncheerful uncomfortable unhappy unhopeful unlively vapid weariful wearisome weary without hope woebegone woeful wooden wretched